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Kitchen Blocks

$60

When I turn a bowl on my lathe, I use dead or downed trees: green wood turns better, I like the subtle warps that come with aging, it's environmentally sustainable, and it's almost always free. In milling a log into rough bowl shapes, though, it's generally advised to cut around the pith, which warps, checks, and cracks faster and bigger than any other part of the log. Instead of chucking this middle section, I started making these kitchen blocks. Too pretty to be just cutting boards, but too versatile and durable to simply be serving pieces. Stock rotates as I mill new logs- currently spalted maple, birch, black locust, and white oak. Almost never square (I try to maximize the thickness area) but as flat and smooth as can be, these are finished with food-safe 100% pure tung oil and ready for your kitchen!

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David Wunderink

David Wunderink

Riftsawn Carpentry

Grand Rapids, MI
Member since: 2014
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Furniture, woodturnings, installations, and reproductions. Made in Grand Rapids with solid wood and love.

I came to furniture and woodworking the long way through general construction, spending many years rehabbing urban rowhomes on the staff of Sandtown Habitat for Humanity in Baltimore, where I was forced to think abstractly and learned to love solving problems and working within restricted budgets.

This translates well to the work I do now, where the projects I love taking on the most involve critical thinking, imagination, and the challenge (and joy) of finding just the right solution to a tricky situation. The projects I love best involve elements I've never done before, which both make me a better carpenter and produce my most creative works.

I try my best to use sustainably harvested and local lumber, or reclaim lumber from barns, houses, and factories around me. I use solid hardwoods, not only for their natural beauty, but because it fits best with my own woodworking philosophies of building to last generations and reflecting the natural properties and character of different wood species. I aim for simplicity and elegance in my work, employing traditional joinery when it's needed, not simply for ornament. I love what I do, and hope you do too.

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