How times change, eh! In the wee small hours of the night, I was reading a book by one of our most highly respected and revered wood turners. A gentleman who has inspired many of us, whose books can be found in many a woodturner's library and whose influence is felt (consciously or sub-consciously) in much of the work that we produce. In this book, there was a section dealing with projects and the first amongst these was the simple chopping board. Take a 1.5" plank of sycamore, skim it through the thicknesser and drill a hold in the centre of what you decide will be the underside. At this point, I'm immediately thinking to myself, 'How's he going to overcome that when he reverses it?' The simple answer, in his paragraph dealing with finishing the board, was to fill it with plastic wood. Now admittedly, this book was published in 1998.
So it prompted me lobby your wealth of tips and techniques, and to ask the question, 'How would you mount and finish such a simple shape?' Remember, it's a featureless, flat disk which has a simple radiussed edge. For the sake of ingenuity and creative thinking, let's assume that we don't all have a vacuum chuck!
Les
