Cutting board repair

>>1037666
In case you were wondering, the dark spots at the near side in the picture are from my boards getting sniped in the planer. Lesson learned, in the future I will make sure the board length has a an inch or two extra at the end...

Anyways, I first began trying to get rid of the warping. I first tried ironing it w/ a wet rag; no dice. Next, I tried leaving it in the sun for a couple HOT days wrapped in a wet towel. This had some improvement, but it was still warped by over .25". Finally, I said fuck it, and popped it in the oven above a foil tray with water, and steamed it. This got the warp down to just over .125", but, as expected it cracked the board in several spots.

>no pic, I didnt bother taking any at this time.

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I proceeded to planing it, but because of all the warping I fixed earlier, I ended up only having to take about 3/16" total, between the two sides.

Next I went ahead and filled in the cracks and new exposed grain with homemade filler. I used mahogany because I have a ton of dust from another project. It was sanded down with 60 grit for now.

I went ahead and added new chamfers on the router, .25" on the top, and .125" on bottom. I had some chip out during this process, so I went ahead and added new filler.
>pics related.

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>>1037669

I sanded it back down with 60, 250, then 400, and finally a wet sanding at 1500. I then soaked in my mineral oil for the finish. It has so far taken in almost 20 fl oz, and I think I will be able to soak in at least half of another bottle.

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>>1037670
The chamfers came out decent, if you look a couple inches up on the right one, you can see where I had to fill in where the chamfer ripped it a bit. Oh well.

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>>1037671
The edges came out pretty nice too. The wet sanding really makes the grain on the maple and walnut beautiful.

That is a very nice board op. You can make me one for my birthday if you like, it's in December so you have a lot of notice at least.

>let a watermelon rot on their counter
wut

>>1037666
>let a watermelon rot
That's just nasty, good job on fixing it

>>1037729
>>1037726
kek that's what I said. Apparently they bought a watermelon, and never got around to cutting it and it just rotted on their counter. like wtf who is that lazy?

>>1037723
srry bby I'm making this person a matching cheese plate this year.

>>1037870
So they can let cheese rot on it ?

>>1038554
Sure. Aged cheese is bae cheese