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god. dammit I have to table saw this butcher block apart.

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[–] elbowgrease@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it'll still look great. no one will care about it as much as you do

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

don't care, this is happening.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

won't those those two strips be slightly narrower now?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yes, by about 1/16th each including table sawing and jointing.

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Put a 1/8 strip of a differently colored wood between

Or make them the new edge boards

Making them the new edge boards wouldn't really help anything, in order to prevent blow out while planing the surface I put a chamfer around the outer edges with a block plane. To get rid of that I'd have to joint off about 1/16" from each side anyway. 1/16" isn't visually much over 1 3/4"