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City Council decided to cut down a 20 y/o tree in front of the shop i work at, and i got this slab as a memento, what is the process of turning this into chopping board? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 months ago by psx_crab@lemmy.zip to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

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Or at least, a side table. What is the process of doing that? I have basic hand tool for working on some other small project, a small circular saw(that attached to a marble cutter), and an electric planer, what else would i need?

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[–] nowwhatnapster@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Hot take. Your best shot at turning this into a usable food grade cutting board is to mill it into 1x chunks now while it is still wet. Then stack those chunks for drying. They'll get a little warped and shrink during drying but checking should be greatly reduced. Then once dry glue em up into rows and run them through a planer. Then glue those planed rows together and plane that. Square of your edges. Hit it with the router and sander. Then soak in mineral oil. You should now have a decent end grain cutting board.

This was a simplified take, but that's the jist of it.