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\nChapter 3<\/strong>
\nMilling the Boards
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\nChapter 5<\/strong>
\nCleaning Up
\nthe Long Grain Slab
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\nChapter 7<\/strong>
\nArranging the Strips and
\nDrilling Dowel Holes
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\nChapter 9<\/strong>
\nSanding or Hand Planing
\nthe Final Slab
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\nRouting Decorative Chamfers
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\nChapter 13<\/strong>
\nLevelling an End Grain Slab
\nwith a Router Jig
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\nThoughts on
\nWoodworking<\/strong>
\nPart 2
\nA Hand Made Gift is Special
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Instructional Woodworking
DVDs<\/h1>\n

End Grain Table Tops & Cutting Boards<\/strong>
Author:<\/strong><\/em> Hendrik Varju<\/p>\n

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Hendrik Varju \/ Passion for Wood \/ August 2015
ISBN: 978-0-9881280-7-1
6 hours, 33 minutes on 3 DVDs<\/p>\n

Price: <\/strong>Cdn. $84.95 + applicable taxes
+ shipping and handling<\/p>\n

Ontario residents pay 13% hst. Canadian residents outside of Ontario pay hst at their own province’s rate, or 5% gst if in a non-participating province. Residents outside of Canada pay no tax.<\/p>\n

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\nTo download a PDF of this production’s
\nTable of Contents click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This document will make it easier for you to navigate the video.
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2015 rounded out Hendrik\u2019s instructional DVD offerings to a total of sixteen titles, releasing two new productions.\u00a0 \u201cHandcut Dovetails\u201d is the second DVD newly released in 2015, but let us first hear about the long awaited production:\u00a0 \u201cEnd Grain Table Tops & Cutting Boards\u201d.<\/p>\n

Previous videos have covered machinery and tool skills, wood science, joinery methods, finishing and more.\u00a0 They have also covered how to build drawers and frame and panel doors.\u00a0 But for the first time, Hendrik shows you how to complete one simple and complete project from start to finish, allowing you to build a beautiful cutting board or butcher block.\u00a0 Or you can build a stunning show piece of a table top using the same methods.\u00a0 Add some table legs and aprons and you have an heirloom piece of furniture that will be the talk of your family and friends.\u00a0 This production includes footage spread over more than 6 1\/2 hours on 3 disks.\u00a0 As is Hendrik\u2019s usual style, this DVD set is a detailed step-by-step course \u2013 not the \u201cusual\u201d DVD fare that may have disappointed you in the past.<\/p>\n

The DVD starts by reviewing some of the more common uses for his methods, such as cutting boards, butcher blocks or even countertops.\u00a0 He even shows you a completed coffee table design using the same construction for the table top and gives you all the dimensions you need to know to build something similar.\u00a0 The coffee table example is sure to inspire you to get to work in your own workshop at home.<\/p>\n

Chapter 2 covers how to choose the wood species you’ll use for your own similar projects.\u00a0 And using his easel, he discusses in great detail how to decide on the number of wood strips to use and their sizes.\u00a0 Like all worthwhile projects, there is a lot of planning required before you make your first cut if you’d like everything to go smoothly.<\/p>\n

In chapter 3, Hendrik reviews how to mill the lumber, including face jointing, edge jointing and then planing opposite edges and faces in the thickness planer.\u00a0 Hendrik’s first DVD production called “Jointer and Planer Secrets” covered these techniques in extreme detail, but in chapter 3 he gives you a quick overview and shows you how it’s done.<\/p>\n

Chapter 4 shows you how to glue up the initial “long grain slab”, using clamping cauls and F-clamps to ensure everything stays aligned.\u00a0 Then chapter 5 shows you how to clean up the slab after the glue-up, using hand planes and the thickness planer.<\/p>\n

In chapters 6 and 7, Hendrik shows you how to cut the long grain slab into strips.\u00a0 Then he shows you how to arrange the strips to provide the final pattern and result in a slab that is “end grain up”, known as the “end grain slab”.\u00a0 Then he shows you how to drill dowel holes to connect the numerous strips, leading to a very easy and stress free glue-up in chapter 8.<\/p>\n

Then the next four chapters show you how to hand plane and sand the final product and how to trim the outer perimeter with two methods:\u00a0 using jointer or router.\u00a0 Hendrik also shows you how to rout decorative chamfers around the edges, including how to hand plane them if you prefer.\u00a0 And chapter 12 covers, in great detail, the various finishing choices, including a discussion of finishes that are suitable for food contact, highly relevant to cutting boards and butcher blocks.\u00a0 He demonstrates how to apply two types of finish:\u00a0 100% pure tung oil for food contact items, and varnish for items where food contact is not a concern, such as a table top.<\/p>\n

As in all of Hendrik\u2019s DVDs, this production is full of techniques he has been using and perfecting for nearly two decades.\u00a0 There is always a wonderful mix of theory, with sketches and full explanations, married with real-time demonstrations you can duplicate in your own workshop.\u00a0 This is the beauty of these multiple disk courses, which give you an absolutely enormous level of detail, but in a \u201clive demonstration\u201d format just not possible in a woodworking book or magazine article.<\/p>\n

The most important aspect of this production, as with all the others, is Hendrik\u2019s full demonstrations done in real time.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t assume prior knowledge, so even a beginner will be able to follow along the journey.\u00a0 Yet he has a knack for covering the basics while simultaneously delving into super fine points an amateur is unlikely to even consider for many years.\u00a0 The incredibly valuable lesson in all this is that Hendrik never just touches on the basics, but goes deeper, giving you a level of understanding of how to dial in accuracy on that last one one-thousandth of an inch.\u00a0 In fine furniture work, accuracy and detail is everything.<\/p>\n

Hendrik is known for his detailed \u201cbonus footage\u201d sections in his instructional DVD courses and this DVD is no exception.\u00a0 The bonus footage is called \u201cA Router Jig to Level a Large Slab”.\u00a0 With a great deal of experience, you might be able to pull off a near-perfect end grain slab that needs very little hand planing or sanding.\u00a0 But if you make any mistakes along the way, which is even more likely when building a very large slab, you’ll want a more efficient way to level the faces of the slab before you try to give it a final smoothing.\u00a0 Hendrik shows you a simple but effective router sled that travels across two accurately milled beams.\u00a0 A large diameter straight router bit passes back and forth over the entire surface of the slab, cutting it to one flat plane in just a few minutes.\u00a0 You can even remove a twist from the slab by shimming up the corners before you start.\u00a0 And once you have one side flat, you just flip it over and repeat on the other side.\u00a0 Hendrik has a knack for designing jigs that are no more complicated than necessary for the job so that you spend most of your time building projects instead of building jigs.\u00a0 This router sled is no exception, being built of just three pieces of Baltic birch plywood.<\/p>\n

The bonus footage on this DVD runs for about 34 minutes — longer than an entire woodworking TV show.\u00a0 In fact, most woodworking DVDs only run for 30 to 60 minutes, so Hendrik’s bonus footage always gives you a huge amount of new information not covered in the regular part of the production.\u00a0 Also, remember that Hendrik’s productions are not just “entertainment” like a woodworking television show.\u00a0 These are lengthy step-by-step woodworking courses in a DVD format.\u00a0 Like it says on the front cover of these productions, this is “Private Woodworking Instruction in a Box”TM. \u00a0In short, \u201cEnd Grain Table Tops & Cutting Boards” is the most complete DVD course of its kind on this subject matter.\u00a0 You\u2019ll appreciate the depth of the information and the subtle details fleshed out at every opportunity.<\/p>\n

In this must-have video, you will learn:<\/p>\n