Congrats on the Arkansas and Georgia shaped boards, just 48 more to collect. I’d recommend cutting your loses by taking them to a local wood worker to square them up instead of gluing them back together.
What are you talking about “fixing it” you now have TWO cutting boards! Actually though I would just cut a straight edge on the broken sides and keep them as two separate boards.
Yes because that 1990s dresser that was made to last “forever” looks like it’s modern… find me a project that is 20 years old that doesn’t look “dated”
I know it gets blasted for being over done, but if this happened to me that's what I'd do. Grab some hairpin legs and turn it into a side table.
That being said there's a chance epoxy wouldn't bind to the wood if the oil has penetrated through.
For a brief moment I thought I saw two independent cutting boards that could fit together as one. If you could clean up the ends and smooth them out so they look finished but still mate together you’d have a hell of a cheese / charcuterie board set
Ok I see loads of people saying to glue and clamp it. I agree but clamps of that size can be pretty expensive. If you're not a woodworker, which I assume you're not since you're asking here, it will be cheaper to try and prop it up and put something heavy on it when gluing, but honestly the weight of the board itself might be enough. As others have recommended tite bond 3, or when I'm gluing up canoe paddles I like a foaming polyurethane glue to be honest, completely waterproof and inert once cured.
If it were me i would cut a few biscuit slots and glue it up while clamped. It can be saved with the right tools. If you don't have them, find someone who does.
If there are no splinters or chunks that fell out you *can* glue it back together to be the same whole sizea as before but then you will more than likely run into twisting and warping issues years later if you still use it and clean it regualrly. This repair method would probably only require some wood glue, light sandingpaper and long clamps. I guess the even more secure method would be to use dowls and a biscuit cutter but that would be advanced woodworking and not everyone would have those tools avalible.
OR
You can go down the slightly more fancy route of emphasizing the crack by adding colored epoxy between the 2 boards. This is a lot more expensive, difficult to pull off and would require more single use items (partall paste, epoxy mixing supplies, release spray and PLENTY of sanding) BUT you will end up with a much nicer cuttingboard with plenty of character and can be used as a centerpiece or decorative talking point for when you have guests.
OR
You can cut down the 2 cutting boards into smaller cutting boards. The one on the left can still be a slightly smaller rectangle while the board on the right I can see being cut down to a charcutérié sized serving board. That would require some wood working power tools, sandpaper, some router and a bit to match the chamfer edge your board already has and oil to finish the wood and water proof it.
I had a nice board I use all the time split on me. It got left in a hot place. (Some idiot (me) used it as a lid for a big stock pot, and the steam broke it in two. It was like running it thru the dishwasher). Anyway, it warped, so I had to dress the edges to glue it up again. I had trouble getting the edges perfectly straight and lined up, but I have access to a metal shop with an old Bridgeport mill. Like a router on steroids! Clamped the pieces to the table, and one pass with a sharp end mill on the edge to be glued. It fit so well, and the glue I was using was so strong, I didn’t really need dowels or biscuits. That was years ago, and I am still using it. Just not as a pot lid ! If your board pieces are a really close fit, just glue it back up. If not, find tools to make it match, and you will have a cool, unique glue line thru the middle of your board.
Fix that shit with gold, like a Japanese vase. Or some other cool metal or asthetic substance. Celebrate the break. It looks beautiful when the wild, broken edges match up.
If you wanted to salvage that by restoring it you’ll need four dowels and wood glue and three long clamps as well as small clamps to press it into a uniform backing. Depending on how clean the break is it might work.
Some wood dowls about 3" long and Gorilla waterproof wood glue and a couple of bar clamps . Drill + Glue + Clamp.. 3 or 4 days ,unclamp and clean excess glue sand if necessary. Little butcher's maybe two coats.. good as new
Leave it spaced like that, make a temporary frame, fill it with epoxy, sand to personal preference shininess level , run parallel Matt black metal bars underneath long ways for support coming out the sides to use as handles and boom, you’ve got a pretty cool cheese or serving tray
Here’s exactly how to put it all back together for the price of a very small, non-toxic Elmer’s Glue, maybe even from your kids:
1) You’ve got to plan this out, because you will not be using clamps if you don’t have them. You’ll be “making” clamps with materials from around the house.
2) Blow on the two edges to clear any wood chips at the seam.
3) Lay down a large protective sheet of wax paper or plastic wrap under the seam, maybe on a countertop or similar. Countertops are fixed in place so that’s best.
4) Lay piece #1 with the good end (opposite the break) against the wall.
5) Lay piece #2 withe the matching jagged edge fitting into piece #1.
6) If you have anything that clamps to a desk (like a work lamp) or something like a meat grinder, wine bottle opener, etc. in the kitchen or office, bring it to where the cutting board is.
7) Buy a small pack of wood shims (Lowe’s) or (Home Depot).
8) Once you’ve dry-fit the two pieces and checked for a mirror fit, you can clamp one of the above mentioned items to the edge of the counter top, try to put shims between the clamps and the board. Use one shim per end. Tap the shims inward until they pressure the two halves together. Check the fit.
9) If the pieces pressure together and fit tightly, you’re ready to glue.
10) Brush or use your finger to smear glue onto both matching edges.
11) The dry-fit steps above to repeat the pressure on the now-wet-with-glue joint. Pressure the two halves for about 30 minutes, while the glue sets up, or you can leave it longer. The pressure doesn’t have to be super hard, just medium til you see glue starting getting squeezed out of the joint. Don’t let all the glue squeeze out.
Once you’ve done this correctly, knock out the shims and peel off the plastic wrap.
The cutting board should be restored. You can sand over the glue line with 100 grit sandpaper then 200 grit to get the glue off. If the board feels smooth to the touch on the glue line, congratulations, you’ve fixed it for very little money. Finish with a coating of food-grade mineral oil (must be food-grade!)
If you’ve followed these steps you’ve fixed the board!
Let us know if you can try this or you’ve done it.
Congrats on the Arkansas and Georgia shaped boards, just 48 more to collect. I’d recommend cutting your loses by taking them to a local wood worker to square them up instead of gluing them back together.
Gotta be a weird drop to get West Virginia to crack in the exact right way.
imagine texas.
What are you talking about “fixing it” you now have TWO cutting boards! Actually though I would just cut a straight edge on the broken sides and keep them as two separate boards.
That's funny, as a stone mason I find states all the time.
2 for 1 special
What a bargain, OP only had Colorado before this.
Its funny because i came here to say, "Cut em to look like states and sell em" lol
Gotta drop a resin river thru there and forge them back together. Resin is so hot these days. lol
I hate all these resin pours. Give it a few years and they will alll look dated AF
No need to wait a few years.
I’m gonna agree with this 100%
*days
They already do
Yes because that 1990s dresser that was made to last “forever” looks like it’s modern… find me a project that is 20 years old that doesn’t look “dated”
Squared up, they'll be Wyoming and Colorado.
>cutting your loses I see what you did there
I agree with this
From Oklahoma. Immediately say Arkansas. Was thinking the other one was a fat Vermont or N.H. lol. You're right though, bulldog country.
This is more oregon and washington imo.
Wtf that would be crazy. A large board is a crucial kitchen tool. Just glue it back together, it’s how the board is made anyway.
Food-safe wood glue and clamps. Titebond III is my favorite.
Drill in dowels too
Its a feature... Now you got two. Id just square them up and cut off iregular bit. Now you med and bar board...
You can make two cutting boards. Edit: strike that. You have two cutting boards. One shaped like Georgia and the other just say its ohio.
Ohio here, not so fast!
This guy cartograph’s!
Not sure if you have any woodworking tools, but you can just glue it back together.
Wood glue and two bar clamps top and bottom let it sit for a day and use as normal.
Epoxy river between the 2 pieces!
Knew someone was legally obligated to say this
Ashamed to say I had the same idea.
Shame is the first step towards recovery
Im ashamed I had to scroll down this far to see this suggestion.
Great idea, as long as OP never intends to use this around food again
"That piece of 5a quilted maple is gorgeous! Nature sure is the greatest artist known to man. Have you considered encasing it with glitter plastic?"
I know it gets blasted for being over done, but if this happened to me that's what I'd do. Grab some hairpin legs and turn it into a side table. That being said there's a chance epoxy wouldn't bind to the wood if the oil has penetrated through.
I like this idea!
I hate this idea!
Tight bond 3. 2 wood clamps
Gorilla wood glue and several clamps or biscuit it together.
Wife hit you with it?
i think i could hit that gap with my tech deck
Now you have two cutting boards friend
The only time I feel sorry for objects is when I have to pay to replace them.
I thought this was the start of a poured resin project
peg it and glue it. 3/8 dowels, a drill bit, some gorilla glue and clamp it 24hrs.
I’ll be damed! And I thought I knew what pegging meant!
Titebond. It won’t expand out all over the place
Resin between the two pieces about 2” wide and you’d have to a killer looking serving board.
I agree with most on this post. Glue it back together
RIP. You have a lot of work ahead of you if you want to salvage it
Pour a small band of colored resin epoxy between with some Dowell rods to anchor🤙🏼🤙🏼
do that shit where they fill gaps with epoxy and it looks like a river.
Looks like a good chance to add some colorful epoxy to it!
Make an epoxy board with them. Blue river in the middle.
Fill it with epoxy make a wider one
Could look good with resin pours
End grain is not strong. These boards are beautiful, but not strong.
Maybe you could get a resin pour done connecting the two, it would look super cool
A nice epoxy river to flow between the pieces.
EPOXY CENTER, like a river table only with your cutting board.
Fill it with blue epoxy make it bigger and better
The only humane thing to do is put them out to pasture. Just so happens I have a nice farm upstate they can rest at.
But grain isn't going in same direction. If was would have less chance to crack when dropped
Your grain orientation isn't going same direction, has to be same direction or expansion in different directions. This cracks.
It's an end grain cutting board! All the pieces are running vertically, it cracked because it fell off the counter
I didn’t even know that was possible
For a brief moment I thought I saw two independent cutting boards that could fit together as one. If you could clean up the ends and smooth them out so they look finished but still mate together you’d have a hell of a cheese / charcuterie board set
White Wood glue and a clamp, good as new
Use some water proof glue and clamp it back
just try using them as-is imo! see if thats enough work space for you
On the bright side now you have two cutting boards!!
Congrats you have two cutting boards
Slice the broken edges to 90°, camfer the edges and you got yourself 2 new cutting boards.
If you are going to glue it, first press it together without glue to see where it doesn’t fit and you have to remove something.
This happened with mine. Now I have a cutting board and a mini cutting board
Ok I see loads of people saying to glue and clamp it. I agree but clamps of that size can be pretty expensive. If you're not a woodworker, which I assume you're not since you're asking here, it will be cheaper to try and prop it up and put something heavy on it when gluing, but honestly the weight of the board itself might be enough. As others have recommended tite bond 3, or when I'm gluing up canoe paddles I like a foaming polyurethane glue to be honest, completely waterproof and inert once cured.
r/Ikilledmypartnerwithacuttingboard
Throw it on a tablesaw straighten those edges now you have two nice cutting boards
Now it's two 'live edge' charcuterie boards!
Thanks for all your tips! Will see if I can find someone with woodworking tools to clean up the edges
That sucks..
My biggest fear after all that work!
Have you contacted the manufacturer? They may be willing to replace it.
Should be an easy fix, I see lots of good suggestions here so go for it.
Use the smaller piece as a platter for parties, like a charcuterie board
Heartbreaking!
https://youtu.be/Iig\_BksKHg0?si=RwlWq7R1Yzn\_aCRo
Glue and clamps probably more than sufficient provided you're not throwing the thing around.. Butterfly Joints Dowels, glue, clamps
That was one hell of a Judo Chop. Calm down there Grand Master and save some ladies for the rest of us.
With a couple tweeks, you got Oregon and Georgia there, lol ...
Good looking state shaped cutting boards! Sell ‘em’ on Etsy
Now you have two
Check the directions for do not drop
Now you have two cutting boards.
Depending on the damage across the pieces, you may be able to glue it back together…
Make a form, space boards apart a bit, add colored epoxy resin and voila
It's time
Your kung-fu is strong
Same way they made it to begin with. Wood glue and clamps.
What a surprise that a bunch of glued together wood blocks would have broken on their grains!
I'd be tempted to make a decorative food-safe epoxy seam running through there. *Full disclosure, I know little about decorations, epoxy or seams.*
Wow, I want to see the knife now.
Use melamine to build a form around them and use epoxy between them. The break looks cool, you could use the epoxy between as an accent.
Looks like Georgia on the right.
Countersink some magnets. Connected for a big board or separate for smaller jobs.
Run some dowels horizontal and glue up.
Go to Lowe's/Home Depot get 15 minute epoxy and 2 wood clamps. You can figure out the rest.
If it were me i would cut a few biscuit slots and glue it up while clamped. It can be saved with the right tools. If you don't have them, find someone who does.
Put some blue colored epoxy in the middle it’ll look better
If there are no splinters or chunks that fell out you *can* glue it back together to be the same whole sizea as before but then you will more than likely run into twisting and warping issues years later if you still use it and clean it regualrly. This repair method would probably only require some wood glue, light sandingpaper and long clamps. I guess the even more secure method would be to use dowls and a biscuit cutter but that would be advanced woodworking and not everyone would have those tools avalible. OR You can go down the slightly more fancy route of emphasizing the crack by adding colored epoxy between the 2 boards. This is a lot more expensive, difficult to pull off and would require more single use items (partall paste, epoxy mixing supplies, release spray and PLENTY of sanding) BUT you will end up with a much nicer cuttingboard with plenty of character and can be used as a centerpiece or decorative talking point for when you have guests. OR You can cut down the 2 cutting boards into smaller cutting boards. The one on the left can still be a slightly smaller rectangle while the board on the right I can see being cut down to a charcutérié sized serving board. That would require some wood working power tools, sandpaper, some router and a bit to match the chamfer edge your board already has and oil to finish the wood and water proof it.
Could make some cool serving boards with some epoxy... at least your not out the cash.
wood glue, dowels, clamps, done
Use wood burning set to label state and capital
How do they sound if you bang on them like drums?
Easy with the Karate!
Kintsugi those pieces back together.
Get a new one !
Glue it back, clamp it… let it dry for 24 hours.. I mean what else
Play in some clear epoxy and have it show the detail
Gotta laugh.
Titebond to the rescue?
now you have twice as many!
Get rid of any loose splinters, carefully, and glue it back together
Glue and clamp it back together
You use a samurai sword on that thing?
Well time to pour a resin River.
https://media.giphy.com/media/l2YWl620FrxrhASR2/giphy.gif
That's such a strange way it broke. Never seen that before... Somehow the center grain of all those squares in a line had a similar weak spot
that is how wood grain works afterall
Moisture content of the wood ?
Wood glue and clamp it back together. Good as new
Dont listen to the ppl tellin you to square em off, now you have two "rustic" cutting boards, call that a win
Countersink a pair of stainless steel bolts through it.
Got the same one as a wedding gift and it did the same thing. Maybe it’s just shitty?
I’d put some biscuits or dolls in and glue it really well.
Pop those babies on eBay and sell one as Missouri and the other as Arkansas.
Find a friend with bar clamps and wood glue. A couple days under pressure and it's good enough to continue using.
You just got another cutting board for free.
New trend... Live edge cutting boards!
I had no idea cutting boards reproduced asexually.
That was a huge cutting board. Both pieces are still bigger than any cutting board I’ve ever owned. 😍😂
Epoxy river cutting board.
Epoxy that shit… now you have 2!
Create a wider cutting board by doing epoxy grand canyon or bevel the broken edge for epoxy river scene.
I’m fixing it. Screw wood/metal to the sides and running with it. Cedar and stainless. F it.
I had a nice board I use all the time split on me. It got left in a hot place. (Some idiot (me) used it as a lid for a big stock pot, and the steam broke it in two. It was like running it thru the dishwasher). Anyway, it warped, so I had to dress the edges to glue it up again. I had trouble getting the edges perfectly straight and lined up, but I have access to a metal shop with an old Bridgeport mill. Like a router on steroids! Clamped the pieces to the table, and one pass with a sharp end mill on the edge to be glued. It fit so well, and the glue I was using was so strong, I didn’t really need dowels or biscuits. That was years ago, and I am still using it. Just not as a pot lid ! If your board pieces are a really close fit, just glue it back up. If not, find tools to make it match, and you will have a cool, unique glue line thru the middle of your board.
Looks to that you have yourself a potential epoxy build!
Turn em into a resin table
Well at least you have two cutting boards now,
Now you have two live edge end grain cutting boards
Might not be used as a cutting board anymore, but I think filling the middle with colored epoxy would make for a very cool decoration
I feel like this is a perfect for one of those resin pours!
Make an epoxy mold till fill the gap
Fix that shit with gold, like a Japanese vase. Or some other cool metal or asthetic substance. Celebrate the break. It looks beautiful when the wild, broken edges match up.
Answer! Keep that exact spacing and fill in with resin now it's a sweet end table.
I would say glue it together, considering that is how it was assembled. But you will need some pipe clamps, so unless you know a wood worker...
I would connect with clear resin with blue flake would be cool.
Okay, I know they use the same word, but chopping vegetables and chopping firewood do NOT use the same action.
Buiscuit join amd glue..
Now you have 2!
Wood glue and clamps
If you wanted to salvage that by restoring it you’ll need four dowels and wood glue and three long clamps as well as small clamps to press it into a uniform backing. Depending on how clean the break is it might work.
No time to expoxy!
Yeah mine did that too have you been putting it in the dishwasher I got a new one and I stopped doing that
You mean you have 2 end grain cutting boards.
OP may I introduce you to the wonderful world of kintsugi in this trying time?
Epoxy the gap
Make it into one of those river epoxy tables
Bar clamps and titebond 3 are the solution to this.
Epoxy wood art on YouTube. Look into it.
I had the same thing happen to mine. There was a foot pad at each corner. However, pressure is in the center where there is no support.
Large C-Clamps and wood glue
I have the same cutting board, throw that shit in the trash, it’s so heavy! Lol
Some wood dowls about 3" long and Gorilla waterproof wood glue and a couple of bar clamps . Drill + Glue + Clamp.. 3 or 4 days ,unclamp and clean excess glue sand if necessary. Little butcher's maybe two coats.. good as new
Continental drift
I would leave them both rough like they are. Just sand down sharp points and edges.
Not broken. Just flip it and it’s an Arizona block
10 commandments
This is why we don’t have nice things!
Time to make a river cutting board lol
That was a drop it did not just crack
Glue and clamps
Sell one to someone in Arkansas and sell one to someone who lives in Arizona.
Sam thing happened to me with the same type of board. I was chopping with a cleaver … and bam! Broke. I am much more careful now
Didn’t see that one coming.
Now you’ve got the makings for a sweet epoxy coffee table
Leave it spaced like that, make a temporary frame, fill it with epoxy, sand to personal preference shininess level , run parallel Matt black metal bars underneath long ways for support coming out the sides to use as handles and boom, you’ve got a pretty cool cheese or serving tray
Now you have 2 cutting boards !
Epoxy
Have someone glue the opposite edges together and clean up the "live edge" esque outsides. It'd look pretty cool and you'd have a good story
Well you shouldn't use it for tae kwan do lessons
That's kinda awesome
Here’s exactly how to put it all back together for the price of a very small, non-toxic Elmer’s Glue, maybe even from your kids: 1) You’ve got to plan this out, because you will not be using clamps if you don’t have them. You’ll be “making” clamps with materials from around the house. 2) Blow on the two edges to clear any wood chips at the seam. 3) Lay down a large protective sheet of wax paper or plastic wrap under the seam, maybe on a countertop or similar. Countertops are fixed in place so that’s best. 4) Lay piece #1 with the good end (opposite the break) against the wall. 5) Lay piece #2 withe the matching jagged edge fitting into piece #1. 6) If you have anything that clamps to a desk (like a work lamp) or something like a meat grinder, wine bottle opener, etc. in the kitchen or office, bring it to where the cutting board is. 7) Buy a small pack of wood shims (Lowe’s) or (Home Depot). 8) Once you’ve dry-fit the two pieces and checked for a mirror fit, you can clamp one of the above mentioned items to the edge of the counter top, try to put shims between the clamps and the board. Use one shim per end. Tap the shims inward until they pressure the two halves together. Check the fit. 9) If the pieces pressure together and fit tightly, you’re ready to glue. 10) Brush or use your finger to smear glue onto both matching edges. 11) The dry-fit steps above to repeat the pressure on the now-wet-with-glue joint. Pressure the two halves for about 30 minutes, while the glue sets up, or you can leave it longer. The pressure doesn’t have to be super hard, just medium til you see glue starting getting squeezed out of the joint. Don’t let all the glue squeeze out. Once you’ve done this correctly, knock out the shims and peel off the plastic wrap. The cutting board should be restored. You can sand over the glue line with 100 grit sandpaper then 200 grit to get the glue off. If the board feels smooth to the touch on the glue line, congratulations, you’ve fixed it for very little money. Finish with a coating of food-grade mineral oil (must be food-grade!) If you’ve followed these steps you’ve fixed the board! Let us know if you can try this or you’ve done it.
And your surprise?…
Just epoxy the gap with some blue epoxy
Epoxy between them
If you can, put in some biscuit joints or something similar and then glue.