Making an Ulu Knife Cutting Board

Earlier this summer, we went on a trip to explore part of Alaska. I was intrigued by all of the textures and surfaces in the landscape of this part of the world. I also discovered the ulu knife which is a traditional knife of Alaska. I thought it would be interesting to make a cutting board for this knife and pull some inspiration from the landscape of Alaska. I made a random segmented block of wood by cutting and gluing, and then recutting and gluing strips of wood many, many times to make an end grain cutting board. I then cut a semi spherical hole in the center of the cutting board. The radius of this spherical hole is slightly bigger than the radius of the ulu knife. This allows one to chop items in the hole of the cutting board with the ulu knife and the pieces that are being chopped don't get away. It seems to work very well. The first thing I used it for was to chop nuts for a batch of chocolate chip cookies.

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0:00 (introduction)
1:18 (glue up)
8:27 (designing the concave)
10:16 (making the concave)
13:02 (conclusion)

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