The bamboo plywood I am using is constructed of three plys. The front and back are 1/8″ thick vertically oriented laminations. The core is 1/2″ thick with laminations that run perpendicular. Whenever I need edge facing, I cut the top and bottom layers off leaving the core as waste. Having saved up all of these half-inch strips, I glued them together to create an end-grain cutting board. Jeanine liked it so much that she wanted me to make an entire bench top using this technique. It is a great idea but would represent a very time-consuming effort and perhaps one I could tackle well after we have moved in.