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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? (infosec.pub)

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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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[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

you can cut a radius line to at least protect the part of the pattern that pleases you most. Instead of splitting arbitrarily from a couple of places, the wood will just widen the cut and dry relatively intact

like this ☞ 2025-08-16-a

but with a slab like this, i would have rather cut a diameter to try to keep one side intact (or 2 sides) 2025-08-16-b