How To Fix Tearout On My Cutting Board?

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11-11-2010 06:11 AM

Topic tags/keywords: tearout tear out cutting board zig-zag planer fix

Ok, so I am following McLeanVA’s blog on how to make a zig-zag cutting board, and while running my boards through the planer I got a major chunk of tearout on one piece. Now because this is a cutting board I know I want all my pieces tight and no holes or gaps for bacteria to grow, so how do I fix this? Do I sand it out and cut a piece and glue it in and then sand back flush? Any and all suggestions are welcome. Here are some pics of the piece and the tearout. Hopefully the show the spot good enough. Thanks in advance for the help!

P.S. That’s my daughters hand in the last one. She’s always trying to help. CDan’t wait until she’s old enough to make it into the shop.

-- Matt - http://breakingboardom.wordpress.com/

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HenryH home \| projects \| blog 139 posts in 3101 days #1 posted 11-11-2010 06:43 AM	Just make another piece and throw that in the scap pile. (you will use it later.) If you have to use that piece just plane it down smooth. -- HenryH - PA
BreakingBoardom home \| projects \| blog 615 posts in 2778 days #2 posted 11-11-2010 07:56 PM	Thanks for the response Henry, but if possible I’d like to save it. -- Matt - http://breakingboardom.wordpress.com/
degoose home \| projects \| blog 7208 posts in 3051 days #3 posted 11-11-2010 09:55 PM	Hopefully you have enough length to make extra cross pieces… I would just glue up all the lengths… cross cut and discard the one/ones with the divot.. Hope this helps.. Larry -- Drink twice... and don't bother to cut... @ lazylarrywoodworks.com.au For lovers of all things timber...
BreakingBoardom home \| projects \| blog 615 posts in 2778 days #4 posted 11-11-2010 10:00 PM	Thanks Larry. I was thinking that if I used this piece on the outside where I can see it, then maybe I could position it to where the handles are routed or something. I guess I could scrap the one section and just make my board a little shorter. Should affect it too much. Thanks for the tip. -- Matt - http://breakingboardom.wordpress.com/
DrDirt home \| projects \| blog 4349 posts in 3439 days #5 posted 11-12-2010 12:07 AM	If you will be chopping it up to make a series of “Tiles” it seems you may have only messed up one block rather than the whold thing. -- 'Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners' ~George Carlin

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