Five years ago, we had some alterations done to the house. We knocked through from the little kitchen to the room behind making a large farmhouse type kitchen dining room.
The worktop we chose was bamboo, and sat behind me up against the wall is about 1.5m left over from one of the lengths which I will use to make a butcher's block type table on wheels!! (A future WIP thread)
But the piece removed from the place where the sink went has been hidden away in the corner of my damp garage since then and so as the garage has most of my machines moved out, it was time to take it up to the workshop and upcycle that piece.
As Mrs Malc is knitting away for Christmas making Christmas tree covers for chocolate oranges, I had an idea about useful Christmas presents. I cut the piece of bamboo lengthways down the middle on the table saw which allowed me to run the damp stained (but not much, bamboo is good like that) side through the P/T to skim off the stains.
I then cut them into various chopping board sizes and then planed the edges on the P/T. Next I got the roundover bit fitted in the Veritas router table and rounded over all six edges of each piece. Then came sanding through the grades and finished them off with a couple of coats of Osmo Poly.
However, I think Mrs Malc's efforts will raise many more smiles than mine!