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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 1 month 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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[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

By electric planer, do you mean a handheld planer, or a pass through planer? If you mean the pass through kind, then that's probably fine, but you might have a problem with it taking chunks off the edges, due to the orientation of the grain.

If you are just doing a single slab, building and setting up a router sled is more work than doing it with a hand plane, manual or electric. So I would go that route if possible.

That being said, it's going to crack as it dries unless you cut it before it starts shrinking.

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 month ago

Power planer:

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Hand electric planer like the other user posted.

That being said, it's going to crack as it dries unless you cut it before it starts shrinking.

Where should i cut it to prevent that?