Throughout the project, I was concerned with hardwood respect. As a beginning woodworker, I was especially concerned with making a mistake or using more of the material than necessary. The project was completed without the use of safety pieces or a reserve stock of wood. This approach racheted up the pressure considerably as "forward progress" and the "potential for catastrophic failure" maintained a direct relationship. Below are images of two cutting boards made from the scraps of the project.

This cutting board took advantage of end piece scrap, both from the initial milling phase as well as after the Making Bigger Boards glue-up.

The striped board above used the long grain scrap pieces shaved from the sides of boards during "final cuts." To bring order to the pattern, a "bookmatch" approach was used here by slicing the longer boards in half after the glue-up, turning one piece around and matching the two together.

The remaining scrap, which will be used for future projects.