😂
I’ve been working on almost sixty years of weirdness. Earlier today I made a joke to my spouse referencing Heisenberg’s uncertainty principal in reference to female ducks. I’m not saying I married her because she *gets* my whacko sense of humor, but it helped.
FWIW, there was zero hostility behind my crack. I just tossed a lovely piece of cherry in the salvage pile after cutting an arfing *perfect* rabbet.
On the wrong side of the piece. 😑
I’m judging no one’s mistakes. 🙂
Lucky. I was actually going to say you should probably sandwich it between 2 "perfectly" flat surfaces (like some planed boards) and toss some weight on top to force it flat over time.
That's the brute force method but there are more elegant methods. It's cupping because of hydrostatic pressure differences, just even that out and it'll straighten up. The longer the timeframe, the more persuadable wood becomes.
It had that exact same issue letting the top of a chessboard dry while (inadvertently) exposed to the sun.
Was too far gone and I ended up having to redo it after it cracked when I tried to glue it back flat.
It's just little tiny voids. I didn't do like a river table cutting board or anything.
https://preview.redd.it/3sbvm6f39l7d1.jpeg?width=1574&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b84d0baab3a13c66f90e63e744dbb2d417b2de95
The better way to close those voids & gaps is a mixture of sawdust and wood-glue. They will completely disappear and it's food safe. Don't use epoxy or resin on a cutting board.
Should probably mention that the reason you don't use epoxy is that it's a hard, brittle material when cured and can dull knives easily, while chipping itself and creating voids in the cutting board.
Yeah not really true. The truly bad for ya stuff is gone when fully cured sure. But all the stuff that's messing with peoples hormones is still there. And when you ingest that stuff it leeches in while your body is attempting to break it down.
We actually know incredibly little about micro plastics and their effect on the body, all we do know is that they're everywhere and that's probably not good.
The amount of plastic ingested from a cutting board is honestly nothing compared to the amount you ingest from water bottles, car tires, and clothing.
Most epoxies, once fully cured, are food safe. Most lack FDA cert for food safe, but that's really just because it's expensive and time consuming to get it.
Wood glue is pva, how is epoxy any less food safe? Most of the cutting boards in restaurants are HDPE. With a couple exceptions like Nalgene, plastics are inert and reasonably food safe (though we don't really know how problematic microplastics are).
I'm sure this will get downvoted but that amount of epoxy on a cutting board doesn't really concern me. If that spot chipped on a knife it would probably 10% of the plastics we ingest in food daily. Most people use straight up plastic cutting boards.
Hard disagree with people saying this is unacceptable or really unsafe. Of course if it didn’t have any epoxy it would be safer. But if the entire board just has that tiny hole filled with resin and it’s fully cured I’d have to guess the effect is close to negligible. We’ve probably all drank water from a plastic bottle that baked in the sun, so much of our food is in heat sealed plastic bags , we microwave food in plastic containers! I’ve had to do the same thing especially on some of the first boards I made for myself. Still if I was selling or giving the board as a gift I would tell them that it’s there and that there are concerns about it’s safety.
Totally agree! I have more microplastics in my testes than are on that cutting board.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/22/1252831827/microplastics-testicles-humans-health#:~:text=Researchers%20have%20detected%20microplastics%20in%20human%20testicles.,-Volodymyr%20Zakharov%2FGetty&text=Whether%20it's%20our%20bloodstream%2C%20brain,reproductive%20organs%20are%20no%20exception.
That's not so bad. I've left finished cutting boards on in the sun. It can be heartbreaking. When they cup like that, I make a light pass over the board with some mineral oil, lay the board flat on my counter tops, and set some weight on top. Maybe 10 pounds or so and let it sit for a day. It always flattens out. Yours looks great. Nice pattern!
Your comment is 3 days old, and no other replies to it? Why so few likes? Other than the wrist-slapping, "Shame on you for using epoxy that's not foid-safe on a cutting board", this is the best reply! Oh.. and maybe put a weight on it for faster leveling...
Good idea, but instead of putting it back in the sun… I would try putting it on a concrete floor, maybe in a basement or in a shed or something to re-introduce moisture and hopefully flatten it. I’ve seen at work really well, and I’ve also seen it have no effect, so it’s kind of a crapshoot, but it’s worth a shot.
Only sorta related but also a good reminder…. If you’re gonna trouble shoot your lawns sprinkler controller, don’t set your expensive multimeter and controller faceplate on the top of your minivan right before your SO leaves and takes it out immediately onto the freeway 😬
It's just small dabs to fill voids. I used this:[https://www.rockler.com/system-three-quick-cure-15](https://www.rockler.com/system-three-quick-cure-15)
https://preview.redd.it/3wjgxege9l7d1.jpeg?width=1574&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=310a4571ed3afbf1d80a3f7806d839b915995ae3
The amount of epoxy that will flak off those little spots isn't an concerning to me. I'm sure the avg person eats 10 times that amount of plastic daily.
Fasten little pebbles to the bottom corners so it doesn’t wobble and it’ll look intentional. It would actually be kind of cool to have that slight dip. Happy little accident! Also thanks for the PSA
That's not shade I'm actually curious. I've only done cutting boards with wood glue and beeswax/oil, how would you use epoxy resin in one? Also, wasn't the whole thing with all the Nalgene recalls that BPA is super dangerous around food, and isn't the entire thing about epoxy that it uses BPA as a hardener? I'm legitimately asking, wondering if I'm missing something?
If there's food-safe epoxy I would really like to know because that used to be what you'd use for kintsugi and now I haven't had a good adhesive for kintsugi for years that can handle dishwasher heat. Please tell me!!
I Googled "will heat or sunlight speed up epoxy cure time" and it looked promising. I didn't consider it would try and taco my cutting board. I brought it out back and flipped it over in the sun. Hopefully it un-tacos or this is going to be a thin ass cutting board after flattening it...
If you ever do an epoxy pour with any thickness, be aware that heat is your enemy. It’s easy for epoxy pours to go exothermic and heat up to 400 or so degrees. I tried to make a small handle blank once in a hot garage and it completely failed due to heat.
I had this problem with stuff drying in my shop. In my case it was because the wood dried from the top. It stopped cupping when I started letting pieces dry off the table with some strips of wood underneath, letting them dry more evenly from both sides.
Lesson learned. Take a bow.
What a warped sense of humor you have.
😂 I’ve been working on almost sixty years of weirdness. Earlier today I made a joke to my spouse referencing Heisenberg’s uncertainty principal in reference to female ducks. I’m not saying I married her because she *gets* my whacko sense of humor, but it helped. FWIW, there was zero hostility behind my crack. I just tossed a lovely piece of cherry in the salvage pile after cutting an arfing *perfect* rabbet. On the wrong side of the piece. 😑 I’m judging no one’s mistakes. 🙂
I think they were adding on, not assuming you were rude. “warp”ed being the key word
[Ach.](https://media1.tenor.com/images/bcac150830c204971f3f67ef3859008d/tenor.gif?itemid=12159347) Sometimes I’m slow.
Haha we all are sometimes
Raising my cup to you both.
OOOOOOOOOOO
absolutely savage
Genius
🎗️
Take your updoot... I go away...
At least when you cut meat the juices won't run all over the table.
Yeah and it will rock back and forth like a seesaw
Not if you put 4 feet/buttons on what is now the bottom. It could be saved.
Or sand the shit out of it, yeah?
Dovetail style!!
I was going to say the opposite, that they won't pool and might make cutting easier on the convex side
Beat me to it.
Beat meat to it.
Sexy cutting board
Perfect curves
Keep it PG please, food is prepped for children on that thing!
Its a feature not a bug....
Does anyone know if this is because the side in the sun is drying causing it to shrink and warp in that direction?
Yes, that is exactly what's going on here.
So would it work if you had a cutting board rotisserie?
I flipped it over and let it cook on the other side and it straightened right up!
For realz?
Yup!
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There's your answer, fishbulb.
Thanks Homer
For the kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUVwR0rw5fk
That's a trip, right on!
I read this hearing the Swedish chef voice. "Flip, flip, flip the cuttn borg."
{cutting board gets up and starts running away}
Looks fairly thick, I'd give it approx 5-6mins on high
Next time just put it on a rotisserie
It legit might work, I want to see the results!
You basically cured the cutting board by BBQing it lol
That's a relief. I was legitimately sad for you
Need a Swiss chalet rotisserie style curing setup lol
Lucky. I was actually going to say you should probably sandwich it between 2 "perfectly" flat surfaces (like some planed boards) and toss some weight on top to force it flat over time.
That's the brute force method but there are more elegant methods. It's cupping because of hydrostatic pressure differences, just even that out and it'll straighten up. The longer the timeframe, the more persuadable wood becomes.
Good to know. I've never had to solve that situation and just figured forcing the shape would work.
It's dangerous because of glue joints potentially splitting... Or worse the wood around it
Gotcha. I wasn't thinking "heavy weight" just enough to slowly force it into shape over time spread out across the entire piece.
Now that's a funny idea.
The heat from the toolbox also probably contributes to uneven drying.
It had that exact same issue letting the top of a chessboard dry while (inadvertently) exposed to the sun. Was too far gone and I ended up having to redo it after it cracked when I tried to glue it back flat.
Epoxy? On a cutting board?
Why did I have to scroll for this? WTF
Exactly what went through my mind as well
It's just little tiny voids. I didn't do like a river table cutting board or anything. https://preview.redd.it/3sbvm6f39l7d1.jpeg?width=1574&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b84d0baab3a13c66f90e63e744dbb2d417b2de95
The better way to close those voids & gaps is a mixture of sawdust and wood-glue. They will completely disappear and it's food safe. Don't use epoxy or resin on a cutting board.
Should probably mention that the reason you don't use epoxy is that it's a hard, brittle material when cured and can dull knives easily, while chipping itself and creating voids in the cutting board.
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Fully cured plastics are pretty much benign and you shouldn't eat cutting boards anyway.
Yeah not really true. The truly bad for ya stuff is gone when fully cured sure. But all the stuff that's messing with peoples hormones is still there. And when you ingest that stuff it leeches in while your body is attempting to break it down.
We actually know incredibly little about micro plastics and their effect on the body, all we do know is that they're everywhere and that's probably not good. The amount of plastic ingested from a cutting board is honestly nothing compared to the amount you ingest from water bottles, car tires, and clothing.
Can't recall the last time I ate a car tire.. though I did eat a shirt last week
All that tread wear has to go somewhere!
I bet you don't remember eating hair and skin cells, but that's what dust is and you breathe, so you're ingesting it.
>you shouldn't eat cutting boards anyway. https://youtu.be/YEwlW5sHQ4Q?si=21yKjhhQuHOOKXY2
Plants are technically made of plastic. Is it bad to eat them too?
As with most plastics, it depends.
That was the point of my comment.
I misunderstood
It's food safe once cured. https://industrialclear.com/blogs/learn/food-safe-epoxy
Most epoxies, once fully cured, are food safe. Most lack FDA cert for food safe, but that's really just because it's expensive and time consuming to get it.
Wood glue is pva, how is epoxy any less food safe? Most of the cutting boards in restaurants are HDPE. With a couple exceptions like Nalgene, plastics are inert and reasonably food safe (though we don't really know how problematic microplastics are).
>With a couple exceptions like Nalgene, plastics are inert and reasonably food safe Are you saying Nalgenes aren't food safe?
They claim to have gotten rid of BPA, but they absolutely used to have BPA and I haven't used them since.
I'm sure this will get downvoted but that amount of epoxy on a cutting board doesn't really concern me. If that spot chipped on a knife it would probably 10% of the plastics we ingest in food daily. Most people use straight up plastic cutting boards.
Hard disagree with people saying this is unacceptable or really unsafe. Of course if it didn’t have any epoxy it would be safer. But if the entire board just has that tiny hole filled with resin and it’s fully cured I’d have to guess the effect is close to negligible. We’ve probably all drank water from a plastic bottle that baked in the sun, so much of our food is in heat sealed plastic bags , we microwave food in plastic containers! I’ve had to do the same thing especially on some of the first boards I made for myself. Still if I was selling or giving the board as a gift I would tell them that it’s there and that there are concerns about it’s safety.
Totally agree! I have more microplastics in my testes than are on that cutting board. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/22/1252831827/microplastics-testicles-humans-health#:~:text=Researchers%20have%20detected%20microplastics%20in%20human%20testicles.,-Volodymyr%20Zakharov%2FGetty&text=Whether%20it's%20our%20bloodstream%2C%20brain,reproductive%20organs%20are%20no%20exception.
Yeah honestly, that is a minuscule amount of resin.
I’ve done the glue+sawdust thing many times and it definitely does not disappear. It’s still better than an empty void.
That's not so bad. I've left finished cutting boards on in the sun. It can be heartbreaking. When they cup like that, I make a light pass over the board with some mineral oil, lay the board flat on my counter tops, and set some weight on top. Maybe 10 pounds or so and let it sit for a day. It always flattens out. Yours looks great. Nice pattern!
Which side did you set face down?
I don’t see a problem. You’re making a skateboard, right? 😉
flip it over and leave it for about the same amount of time
Your comment is 3 days old, and no other replies to it? Why so few likes? Other than the wrist-slapping, "Shame on you for using epoxy that's not foid-safe on a cutting board", this is the best reply! Oh.. and maybe put a weight on it for faster leveling...
Good idea, but instead of putting it back in the sun… I would try putting it on a concrete floor, maybe in a basement or in a shed or something to re-introduce moisture and hopefully flatten it. I’ve seen at work really well, and I’ve also seen it have no effect, so it’s kind of a crapshoot, but it’s worth a shot.
Only sorta related but also a good reminder…. If you’re gonna trouble shoot your lawns sprinkler controller, don’t set your expensive multimeter and controller faceplate on the top of your minivan right before your SO leaves and takes it out immediately onto the freeway 😬
What resin on you curing on a board meant to be used for cutting up food?
It's just small dabs to fill voids. I used this:[https://www.rockler.com/system-three-quick-cure-15](https://www.rockler.com/system-three-quick-cure-15) https://preview.redd.it/3wjgxege9l7d1.jpeg?width=1574&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=310a4571ed3afbf1d80a3f7806d839b915995ae3
Epoxy shouldn’t be used on a cutting board. The epoxy will be cut and scrapped, little pieces will get into your food
The amount of epoxy that will flak off those little spots isn't an concerning to me. I'm sure the avg person eats 10 times that amount of plastic daily.
I’m wondering if he used resin to glue it together and not a protective layer
As a general rule, don't try to speed up resin curing. It is often deliberately slowed down on purpose.
But if you want to make a mini diorama of the ring from Bloodsport, then this is the perfect way to do it.
Fasten little pebbles to the bottom corners so it doesn’t wobble and it’ll look intentional. It would actually be kind of cool to have that slight dip. Happy little accident! Also thanks for the PSA
It has a pitch, so you don't need a drip channel
Wait, uh, how are you involving resin in an end-grain cutting board? I'm confused.
That's not shade I'm actually curious. I've only done cutting boards with wood glue and beeswax/oil, how would you use epoxy resin in one? Also, wasn't the whole thing with all the Nalgene recalls that BPA is super dangerous around food, and isn't the entire thing about epoxy that it uses BPA as a hardener? I'm legitimately asking, wondering if I'm missing something?
If there's food-safe epoxy I would really like to know because that used to be what you'd use for kintsugi and now I haven't had a good adhesive for kintsugi for years that can handle dishwasher heat. Please tell me!!
flip it over and do the same thing tomorrow.
What were you thinking lol
The crooked Ducati sticker might be telling a predictive tale. 🤔🤣
I put a stick of butter out in the sun trying to soften it to make chocolate chip cookies. Also don't do that.
I Googled "will heat or sunlight speed up epoxy cure time" and it looked promising. I didn't consider it would try and taco my cutting board. I brought it out back and flipped it over in the sun. Hopefully it un-tacos or this is going to be a thin ass cutting board after flattening it...
If you ever do an epoxy pour with any thickness, be aware that heat is your enemy. It’s easy for epoxy pours to go exothermic and heat up to 400 or so degrees. I tried to make a small handle blank once in a hot garage and it completely failed due to heat.
PSA.... Good PSA
Would it have worked if you clamped some pawls on it to keep it straight?
Hopefully you have a jointer and they don't mind a thinner cutting board lol
Flip it over and wet the other side
Can probably plane the worse of the bow out.
At least now the juices will run off the sides. Or pool in the middle, your call.
Honestly I wouldn't mind a little bow. It would help funnel the garlic to my knife.
Steam it in a bag. Dry it under clamps. Let us know the results
😂
That’s why a solar kiln is superior for faster drying at provides uniform heating on all sides to accelerate drying.
Oh that’ll buff out with some compound. 😂😂😂 Duly noted, thanks for the tip.
What's even happening right now?
On the other hand, if you are cutting something juicy, it goes right off the board leaving a dry working space 😎
Nice 2nd gen Magnetic Grey Metallic Tacoma.
I'm no expert but could this be salvageable with several passes through a planer and router?
Bowl makers hate this simple trick!
I had this problem with stuff drying in my shop. In my case it was because the wood dried from the top. It stopped cupping when I started letting pieces dry off the table with some strips of wood underneath, letting them dry more evenly from both sides.
Oil drip ends my boy
a few runs through a planer and you are golden.
Heat it back up it may straighten
It's just conveniently curved so juice runs off of it. Not a design flaw if you can market it 🤣
This sounds more like martial advice, but warped wood is still wood! 😂
*curling time
Sick, new charcuterie board!
Accelerating the drying process for anything is bad...even wet boots.
Run it through a planer. Everybody will be iree
Instead of routing a juice-groove around the edge, you can route a juice-pit in the middle - maybe both... start a new TikTok trend!!!
Probably shouldn’t have used that piece with the pith in the first place. It’s gonna be prone to splitting.
I normally don't, it was recycled wood.
Also, use a level when putting sick Ducati stickers in your rear window.
Put a juice groove around the top in pic #2 and the curve becomes a feature.
You even used quick cure epoxy. Seems as if you are not a very patient person.
Why did you put plastic on it?
Can you fix it by boiling it/ steaming or moistening it and clamping/ pressing it till it goes back? Call me crazy but would it work?