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great diy content today's video i'm going to show you how i make my best selling item it's really
easy to make i can make all kinds of these and as soon as i do they're gone they sell so fast
it's cutting boards or bread boards and these sell like hot cakes i'm going to show you today how i
make them because they're so simple all you need is a few simple things you need to have a jigsaw
a sander and some creativity and that's it first thing we're going to do is we're going to cut up
some wood i went to the wood pile at the dump the other day and i found all kinds of boards
like this the perfect size to make my cutting boards and the best thing about it i didn't have
to buy the lumber lumber can get really expensive i try almost all the time for any of my diy
projects to use wood that's been salvaged or in the wood pile at the dump or i have people that
save their wood scraps for me and i use that i've already cut a bunch of these up and i like to do
them in all random sizes i've sanded them and distressed them they're ready to be finished
but i'm going to take you along now and do my last board that i have and show you how i do it
i have a old cutting board that i use as a template i don't use it in my kitchen anymore
it's only just strictly out here in my shed and i just put it down on this piece of wood you can
use any kind of wood to make these actually the more broken and knots and cracks in it i think the
prettier they are it just gives it more character i just lay it on my board where i want it
and this is just a pen you can use a pencil you're going to really sand it afterwards so you're going
to sand all of this off and i just trace it along and then when i want to do the length of it i just
pick i always do random lengths but i just use the end of the cutting board and i just draw a line
along the bottom of it to cut now to cut your wood the easiest thing is to use a jigsaw
there and they're really easy to use if you don't have one i picked this up at Canadian tire it's
the master craft you don't need anything fancy you just need to get the job done and cut it
and i always wear some work gloves and some eye protection and as far as using tools
i'm self-taught it's uh my husband's helped me out a little bit to show me how you know when i
first got started but it's really simple and you shouldn't be intimidated if you've never used
any power tools like this before because after you've done it a couple times it's really easy
and i am not a carpenter or a pro woodworker at all this is just very rustic and i just do what
it takes to get the job done now i'm just going to take my jigsaw and cut out where i've traced
that's it for cutting the board and don't throw these out i cut them with my chop saw
into squares or rectangles and turn them into signs also now that i've got the first one cut
i'm going to use up the rest of the board and just cut up the rest of the cutting boards
we got them all cut out next step is to really distress them i like them so they look
aged and used and the corners are all kind of rounded and i just do that with a hammer
i just go crazy with a hammer banging it i use this end and put little holes in it
around the end as you can see i really banged it up with a hammer around the sides and now we're
ready to sand i'm just using a palm sander this came from princess auto in Canada works perfect
you don't need a real expensive one you just need one that sands and this is a really heavy grit i
want to really distress this this is 50 grit you can start off with an 80 and see how it works
for you i just know that i like mine really rustic so i start right off with the 50 grit
i've got them all sanded down i like when the edges are kind of smooth
and now we're ready to drill a hole in the top i've just got my drill
and a big drill bit and i'm just going to drill down the center on all the boards
and i've got them all done and they're ready to be finished these cutting boards breadboards um
are only for decor i don't make these so they're food grade if you know more about that then that's
something that you could do but i'm not really sure about the different kind of wood that you
should use if you're going to be putting food on it or the different types of oil that would
be food grade that would be something that you would want to look into and make sure you're
using the right products these are sold just as decor and a lot of them i'm going to be doing
painting techniques and stuff like that on that they wouldn't be able to use them for serving
food on anyways my favorite way to finish these is to stain them and this is actually a a wood
stain that i picked up in the oops section it was a mistint and it was a couple dollars so
it was a great deal and it's a really nice dark almost black color i just finished staining one
already and i love the way that it turned out and you can see how it accents all those little
places where i hit with a hammer and makes it look really old i'm going to do some of these in the
stain i'm going to paint some of them i'm going to do different techniques on a bunch of them
i'll come back when they're all done and i'll show you all the different ideas that you can do with
these boards and i've got a whole bunch of these done in all kinds of different methods different
painting techniques different graphics i love the way they all turned out so many fantastic ideas
that you can do with these homemade cutting boards i filmed all of the techniques that i did making
all of these bread boards i'll have that video up next week so if you're interested make sure
you watch out for that one so if you're looking for something that sells really well make some
of these cutting boards thanks for watching have a great day and we'll see you in the next video