Looks good. How long did you leave it clamped up?
If the joint breaks again, consider using a biscuit joiner in a few places, and you might not need to resaw the separated surfaces.
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Clamped for 24 hours.
Yep, that’s exactly what we decided, see if this holds and if not try some biscuit joiners.
Kinda like barn wood has become popular, per the wear, that might be trendy with cutting boards. Gotta be a way to hastily psspound the stuff to give it the used feel.
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Like “pre-owned” as a euphemism for used? “Broken in?” Is there money to be made here?
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My WS birch board is only a few months old, but it is getting noticeably better as whatever sealed the surface breaks down a bit. At first I did not know what wood it was. It looked like maple. I just thought I had found a decent deal. I looked into it a bit and found it was end grain birch. As I used it, a bit of buyer’s remorse crept in. However, as the surface gets broken in it gets better and better. Mind you, not J K Adams maple good, but pretty darned good. So I add cutting boards to my short list of things that improve with a bit of breaking in. The list also includes carbon steel knives and pans, bread and sheet pans, anything cast iron or untreated aluminum, some kinds of pottery, and tin linings.
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