Bait Board Surface Coating?

[Scienceman]

I have a permanent bait board on the back of my Quinnie. It has a piece of marine ply for the cutting surface. However this surface seems to grow an algae or fungi which is dark and ugly and sometimes gets on the bait. I intend to sand the surface back to fresh wood but my question is now what should I seal the surface with?

Whatever I use must not be too hard to blunt knives. I was thinking of getting an epoxy 2-pack or even glueing a plastic cutting board onto the wood. Any suggestions?

[tryhard]

I have a permanent bait board on the back of my Quinnie. It has a piece of marine ply for the cutting surface. However this surface seems to grow an algae or fungi which is dark and ugly and sometimes gets on the bait. I intend to sand the surface back to fresh wood but my question is now what should I seal the surface with?

Whatever I use must not be too hard to blunt knives. I was thinking of getting an epoxy 2-pack or even glueing a plastic cutting board onto the wood. Any suggestions?

How about some sort of hard rubber type material from Clark Rubber ?

[pelican]

If you can remove the ply and replace it with a polly chopping board it would be best or even if you just sealed the ply up with any varnish or sealer and screwed a polly chopping board over it. Much more food and knife friendly. Commercial cattering suppliers supply big oversize ones in various colours or just go the the supermarket for a cheapo one.

[mr magoo]

yeh reckon chamge it and go for the pollie cutting board aproach,because even if you laquer ,two pack and any other coating ,your gonna cut through and its gonna peel and scratch and genrally look ordinary

go the pollie cutting board

cheers arman

[johnno]

High Density Polyethylene-Cutting Board

as the guys have said the nylon kind

the ply really must go it will never be right what ever you do

[Scienceman]

Thanks for the great feedback. Looks like it will be a poly-board transplant. I will have to see how easily the wooden board is to remove and if too difficult i will glue a poly-board on top.

[Dreamtime]

what should I seal the surface with?

Whatever I use must not be too hard to blunt knives. I was thinking of getting an epoxy 2-pack or even glueing a plastic cutting board onto the wood. Any suggestions?

I had a similar setup on the back of my Nipper.

Kept it simple and cheap.

Sprinkle salt on it after each trip.

Algae gone, smell gone and sterilised. All for less than $1 per trip

Might suffice until you decide on final cutting surface.

Cheers

[tumra]

mate, have you though of getting some laminex and sticking it onto the surface of the board. You should be able to get some from bunnings along with the adhesive to stick it on with.

[pelican]

Thanks for the great feedback. Looks like it will be a poly-board transplant. I will have to see how easily the wooden board is to remove and if too difficult i will glue a poly-board on top.

Screw it on . Polly is only a couple of plastics before teflon and is impossible to glue well

Edited April 14, 2008 by pelican

[Scienceman]

Stainless self-tappers it is then.

Might give the salt a try first though as the wooden surface is kind to knives. I would have thought laminex too hard on knives - I like them razor sharp.

[donital]

Mate try Pacific West plastics at Wetherill Park .They can custom make them to any size and make it removable.They did a great job on mine and were very reasonably priced.I think the guys name was Bill.