/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2757497
What's preventing you from running power? Are extension cables not adequate? What about a generator?

Depending on the kinds of cutting boards you want to make, you'll need some basics in the way of power tools, including a table saw for consistently clean, straight edges, a router sled or planer for smoothing and thicknessing stock, and a router for chamfers or bevels. Here's a basic rundown for building a cutting board:

> Select, joint, and plane your stock to the appropriate thickness
> Cut your boards to size
> Glue up
> Plane again to remove any glue lines
> Apply any bevels or chamfers
> Sand down
> Oil / finish

Yes, it's possible to do all of these tasks by hand. You can mill your boards with a #4 planer, you can cut your boards with a hand saw, you can block plane the chamfer, and you can hand sand from 80 to 220+. But you have to consider the time sunk into doing all that shit by hand versus shelling out for some power tools and turning a 20-hour job into 2 hours.

As I mentioned before, battery-operated tools will get you pretty far until you're able to run power to your shop.