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

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[–] elbowgrease@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

don't care, this is happening.

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

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

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

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

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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"