CNC + Laser = Personalized Cutting Board

This blog usually features Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), but my other passion are Personalized Cutting Boards :-).

It has been a while since my last CNC or laser cutter post, so I thought I showcase just quickly one of the recent designs.

Personalized Cutting Board

For the cutting boards I use 20 mm oak sheets, and cut them with my desktop CNC.

The design is really easy and simple, and only takes about 5-6 minutes to cut:

Vector Tool Path in Carbide Create
Simulated path in Carbide Create

The result is a raw cutting board, I can produce in different sizes. Usually I produce 2-3 of them, just to have some ready in my inventory.

Raw Cutting Board

That way whenever someone in the family needs a personalized present, I have them ready and only need to have engrave it with the laser cutter.

LightBurn Laser Software
Laser Engraving

Finally, the board gets treated with food-grade oil for a nice finish.

After oiling

With this, they are ready to use:

Finished Cutting Board

Below some of the cutting boards:

Happy cutting 🙂

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7 thoughts on “CNC + Laser = Personalized Cutting Board

  1. Great idea for PCBs and impeccable manufacture. I see that the base boards used for PCBs are made from smaller oak planks. Is glue, used for connecting theese planks, food safe?

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  2. You have way too much fun….

    One thing about cutting boards: they always should be out of Maple as that’s (oddly enough) the only wood that is anti-bacterial (is actually a cleaner surface than stainless because of it).

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    • I have read that about Maple too. Unfortunately, that wood is somehow really hard to get here.
      As for the anti-bacterial topic: I had never issues, with properly hand-wash-cleaning the boards and drying it. Of course it all depends what your are cutting on it too.

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