This Belfast sink drainer model also is equipped with rubber pads so your worktop is protected from scratches. Keep collections to yourself or inspire other shoppers! Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections—they may also appear in recommendations and other places. I suggest you do laminate the boards and try to orient the grain to minimize expansion/contraction issues. The main challenge with this is going to be preventing cupping. Was wondering how you'd gotten on. I'd used the 1010 for mine in ash with a long 8mm shank core box bit. 3 or 4 progressively deeper passes per groove. With the length of the shank there was some chatter but very shallow final passes came good in the end. I would in general dissuade you from trying to make something like this from common plywoods which have glue joints of questionable durability. It would be much preferable to make a piece like this from solid wood.

New sink is coming into new kitchen next week - living the dream with a double butler sink and no draining board. To complement worktops in a traditional kitchen setting, consider a ceramic angled drainer. This ceramic angled drainer is designed to sit directly on any work surface, though is particularly well-suited for protecting a wooden worktop. I really like the way the combination performs. The oil is just a refined mineral oil and using it alone, it leaves a very oily surface behind. The cream is a combination of oil and bees wax and it imparts a very nice finish to the wood. So you say that I should rub down the whole thing - do I then use the Danish oil? Any do/don'ts with that - never used it before. Thanks for the detailed explanation @Cheese . You keep on inching me closer towards getting the pc1cc.Yes but I don't know what it is for and I don't use it except for piling more stuff on as in current kitchen there isn't enough worktop. Is there any advantage of gluing up the 5 boards to make 15” width or just use it as is. The ones I saw with boards glued up did not alternate the grain (right side up, then upside down, etc...). So I don’t see that much of an advantage in the glue up I have been spending TOO MUCH time reading about this subject. I am going to go ahead with this one piece of wood and see what happens. Worst case, if it cupps (hopefully on the bottom, I will plane it down, and give it to someone in the family and start again.

Wooden worktops make a beautiful complement to undermounted stainless steel kitchen sinks and glossy ceramic sinks. Without a built-in draining board, it is sensible to ensure that kitchenware can be left to dry beside your sink without leaving standing water that could compromise your wood work surface. Angled worktop draining boards and built-in drainage grooves are both smart solutions. The people who we bought the house of did not leave me any instructions on how to maintain it but did leave some danish oil under the sink. It looks to me like they have put a coat of polyurethane over the top of whatever was there as there are patchy bits and some uneven bits. Traditional thinking would deem that the laminated wood strips would be your best defense against twisting and cupping. However, it's also not your best defense against individual strip delamination. No mess - wooden drainer is equipped with a drip groove to stop water running under the draining board.I then applied a HEAVY application of Boos cream and let that soak in for about 12 hours. I then again wiped off the residual cream left behind. Also the work surface is edged in the same wood & that looks to be the same - so I presume that I need to treat that the same. We have less kids living at home now and reconfigured kitchen. We kept the Belfast sink with no draining board.

In this top view the Kohler product is already missing the lower LH radius and there are about 10 different places where the strips are starting to delaminate. This will last maybe another 6 months. Each of our maple cutting boards are cut from a single piece of wood, which means there are no glue seams."Kohler produces this cutting board to accessorize their sinks. However, this is the 3rd cutting board I've gone through in the last 10 years. All the failures have been because of wood strip delamination. None of these cutting boards have been put into the dishwasher and none have been subjected to excessive exposure to water. When they're cleaned, they're wiped with a damp towel and then immediately wiped with a dry cotton towel. Notice the chunk missing from the LH side. This finest quality wooden draining board is made from solid top quality oak wood - oak is the hardest wood - that means your drainer will last long. As I noted in reply 5, the Kohler laminated cutting board is always falling apart so I decided to make one from solid walnut. Having a means to keep itself in place and draining over the edge of the basin courtesy of the hooks at the front. In terms of finish, the only sure way to waterproof wood is with a good film finish. While epoxy finishes, such as used in marine applications, are absolutely waterproof common interior varnish is actually surprisingly water-resistant. So a good coat of oil-based polyurethane (not thin, no pinholes or missed spots, paying particular attention to cut edges) will provide quite reliable long-term waterproofing.