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  1. 19th May 2017, 02:24 AM #1
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    Default Breadboard cupping - Please help

    Team, recently I made a breadboard for a friend as a gift (yet to be given) but it has cupped since oiling ever so slightly but still noticeable by me . how can I stop it cupping further or how can I help get it back to flat. its around 15 -16mm thick, or should I say thin. I cant afford to run through the jointer and thicknesser any more as there will be nothing left.

    what can I do to fix?

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    Panic stations over. It has since flattened itself out., I think it had caught the sun whilst it was drying after I oiled it. I moved to a dead flat surface and let it sit (out of the sun), my bedroom, it's pretty dark and cold in that room - need I say more, hahahaha. It might be out ever so slightly, nothing worth worrying about but to be sure I have now put a slab of blackbutt 300x450x38 on top. It was so small I couldn't actually photograph the cup. Anyway here it is.

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    It was probably the sun as you mentioned. Never let it dry in the sun. Make sure you let it dry evenly on both sides (ie flip it over every now and again).
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    At the Day Centres Men's Shed where I help out, we make a lot of cutting boards. To stop the cupping, I route a tongue across the boards and then groove a matching piece of timber to put along the tongue section. It adds a nice contrast to them.
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    Beware of gluing timber across the board unless it is dead dry.
    Splitting can be the result of this

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