Restoring an 8 Year Old Butcher Block Cutting Board

The Northwest Block is one of our oldest designs dating back to 2014! Watch as we restore one used as a daily driver for 8 years.
This NW End Grain Butcher block is made of carefully selected pieces of walnut, hard maple, and rift sawn white oak. A drum sander is use to restore it, flattening a bow and sanding through scarring left by knife marks. Fresh feet are installed and the fractionated coconut oil is used to recondition, refinishing and replacing the original mineral oil seasoning. Ready and raring for another decade of use!
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[@JustinBrouillette]

ill the drum sander flatten or does it press it down and then pop back up after?

[@commonergoods]

There are better tools to truly flatten (like a CNC! 😉), or if using a drum sander securing the project to a piece of flat material and shimming up the bowed spots. But beyond that, yes, the drum sander does a better job than a planer at “flattening” boards and I think it’s because a powerful planer can take a deep cut, pushing whatever bow the board has thru to the other side, whereas a drum sander can only take very light passes and thus does a better job actually removing only the high spots each pass. Results may vary ✌️