Brick Pattern
Cherry bricks and thin maple mortar lines, offset into a running-bond wall of wood.
Strip layout to scale, left edge to right edge — heartwood tones from the species data the 3D preview uses.
| Finished size | 11″ × 18″ × 1 1/2″ thick |
|---|---|
| Construction | Edge grain (one glue-up) |
| Strips | 9 |
| Species | Cherry, black, Maple, hard (sugar) |
| Difficulty | intermediate |
| Est. lumber to buy | ≈ 3.1 board feet (incl. 15% waste) |
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About this pattern
A brick-pattern board reads like a masonry wall: wide cherry “bricks” separated by thin maple “mortar” lines. In the designer the courses are laid out as strips — 2″ cherry separated by 1/4″ maple — which glues up into a striped panel. To get the staggered running-bond look, crosscut the finished panel into rows the height of one brick, shift every other row by half a brick, glue the rows back together with a thin maple strip between courses, and trim the ends flush.
That crosscut-and-offset step is what turns stripes into brickwork, and it sacrifices about half a brick per row, so the 15% waste factor built into the estimate genuinely matters here. Keep the mortar strips at exactly 1/4″ — anything wider starts to read as a stripe pattern instead of mortar joints. Cherry darkens dramatically with light exposure, so the brick-to-mortar contrast keeps improving for the first year of use.