What?????????
Actually, it was probably of the cheap/affordable and 
readily available type of worktop variety. Seriously, I have 
no idea, but it was used as a cutting table in somebody's 
kithen, so probably the former.........later, I always get 
them confused.

So far I've cut a 12" x 50" chunk out of it for a top on a 
base cabinet that is up against the wall opposite the front 
of my workbench/assembly table (I have a small basement 
shop). This serves mainly as a tool rest for all my really 
usefull stuff, as I still can't figure out why I put a tool 
tray in my workbench. I'm constantly having to remove the 
tools to clean out the shavings and saw dust. The 10" x 12" 
cutoff is used as a backup scrap for pre-drilling, and the 
24" x 60" piece that is left over is still leaning up 
against the wall. It will probably become a small bench with 
a machinest's vice and home to all of my sharpening cr*p.

Regards JP

---- Original message----
>
>So was this endgrain maple butcherblock, which is the nec 
plus ultra for 
>kitchen cuting-board purposes but probably not so strong 
longitudinally 
>and thus not great for a workbench?  Or was it sidegrain 
butcherblock, 
>which is less ideal for kitchen cutting-board purposes but 
>longitudinally stronger and thus better for a workbench?
>
>--Mike
>
>On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:59:01 -0400, jpeck@m... wrote:
>
>>O.K., shoot and then duck. Here goes nuttin'
>>
>>I was driving down the road a couple of weekends ago with 
>>SWMBO and GIT when SWMBO spotted this "DESIGNER YARDSALE" 
>>sign. Since I couldn't conceivably find anything that I 
>>could be interested in, I sputtered out a few laim excuses 
>>why we shouldn't stop. All this did was increase the 
amount 
>>of time it would take to turn the car around and hit the 
big 
>>sale.
>>
>>It took five seconds to zero in on two 36" x 60" x 1+1/2" 
>>pieces of butcher block. $20 bucks later, I had one jammed 
>>into the back of the car. This guy stopped me to ask what 
I 
>>planned to do with it, to which I replied "I have no idea, 
>>but I'm sure that I need it".
>>
>>That evening, while sipping a cold one and patting myself 
on 
>>the back for insisting that we stop to look.....I soon 
>>realized so many GOOD uses for that butcher block that I 
>>can't stop kicking myself for not picking up the other one.
>>
>>Will I ever live this one down???
>>
>>Regards 
>>Jonathan Peck
>>
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>
>Michael D. Sullivan
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