01-19-2018, 08:36 PM
My last cutting board was made with scraps from the shop and some extra maple. It's not a commission or anything so it isn't particularly important, but it's replacing a glass cutting board in the kitchen because I recently bought "good" knives and don't want to dull them quickly by cutting on glass. I can remember that, but I don't think my wife can.
One of the bloodwood pieces I used has a surface crack that runs about 1/2" deep (visible on the edge) and maybe 6" long. What do you do when this happens? I was going to use the other side as the cutting surface so I wasn't particularly concerned, but I did wonder what would happen if I didn't have extra wood and both sides were cracked. Even though the cracked side is going to have rubber feet on it (clearly the bottom) I was still going to put a bit of Titebond III on it and sand it until the crack "heals." That is what I saw online, but that doesn't really seem like a long-term solution for a cutting board where bacteria is a concern (I like meat, and I like it pretty rare).
What do you all do when you have cracks like this? Turn it over? Scrap it? Use it for something other than food? I feel like it's a pretty small defect, but at the same time it's early enough in the process that it wouldn't hurt to repurpose it as something else.
One of the bloodwood pieces I used has a surface crack that runs about 1/2" deep (visible on the edge) and maybe 6" long. What do you do when this happens? I was going to use the other side as the cutting surface so I wasn't particularly concerned, but I did wonder what would happen if I didn't have extra wood and both sides were cracked. Even though the cracked side is going to have rubber feet on it (clearly the bottom) I was still going to put a bit of Titebond III on it and sand it until the crack "heals." That is what I saw online, but that doesn't really seem like a long-term solution for a cutting board where bacteria is a concern (I like meat, and I like it pretty rare).
What do you all do when you have cracks like this? Turn it over? Scrap it? Use it for something other than food? I feel like it's a pretty small defect, but at the same time it's early enough in the process that it wouldn't hurt to repurpose it as something else.
