End Grain Wood

End grain butcher block worktops are created by fusing together the end pieces of wood staves into a checkerboard pattern.

End grain wood. The board only weighs 255. Tinted lacquer varnish etc. The end grain of wood is very absorbent.

Planing End Grain with a Jack Plane. When feasable adding strips of wood to the end grain gluing or tongue and grooving will hide it and solve the problem. End Grain is made by continuously cross cutting or slicing logs or cants into blocks or rounds with the annual growth rings exposed on every piece.

But in the board in this blog post I cut the end off with my old Stanley miter saw nice clean straight cut and then hit it with 220 grit and then 320 grit before applying a. End grain definition wood grain as at the end of a board resulting from a cut across the grain. These oak blocks are delivered separately in a bag.

Strictly speaking grain is not always the same as the figure of wood. For example if you glued a bunch of 2-by-4s together with the cut sides showing that would be the strongest construction method. Put simply end grain cuts produce highly-aesthetic wood with character color and durability.

Normally I try to use a block plane on the end grain always planing towards the middle of the wood to avoid blowout on the ends and then follow it up with 320 grit. To properly protect against water you may need to take special precautions with exposed end grain. If that same log is cut lengthwise along the middle the end grain of the wood will be revealed.

The end grain of the wood is considered the strongest and most durable part of it. There is irregular grain in burr wood or burl wood but this is result of very many knots. Wood is an amazing building material due to its beauty strength and versatility however it has a weird relationship with water.