Red Ironbark Chopping Block

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I had some Red Ironbark off cuts lying around and decided I needed yet another heavyweight Chopping Block

The individual Blocks were 45 mm high and 50mm x 50 mm width and depth, and
the staggering blocks were 50 mm x 25 mm x 45 mm

I might add a very sharp blade is needed for this dense timber.

Its very dense timber and pushed the Kitchen appliance off scale.

ensuring your taking care not to drop it on your or your partners foot or toe!

I did  an incremental glue up using my framing clamps and cauls supported by heavy weigh relatives

once each section was set I sanded the mating edges for the next section and dispensed with the framing clamps.

Eventually finishing the glue up
next was some (like a lot) of sanding filled the bin up with almost 1 150 mm abranet per grit, started at 80g and finished with 320g
As its double sided no rubber mounts were fitted and the finger grip was located in the middle of the block

Now a mishap occurred while profiling the edges and a huge section chipped out on one of the corners

much to my dismay, this was immediately fixed by a few expletives and the decision to 45 deg the corners to hid the goof 

The various nicks and chips were filled with TBIII and sawdust then a good application of orange oil to clean it up and  the job was finished