I’m making hardwood cutting boards and want more color than just maple. I would like to add some walnut, purpleheart, and padauk but was recently told they were toxic. I understand the dust is/may be toxic, but is it a bad idea to use these woods in a cutting board?
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Here are a couple of links for you to check out, for general info on toxicity. I know a very fine woodworker in WA that uses walnut regularly for cutting boards, FWIW.
http://www.mendelu.cz/~horacek/toxic.htm
http://www.davidillig.com/awg/safety.shtml
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
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