When a local mill was closing they gave me this blank of two looks to be white oak blanks that were already glue together. My band saw isn’t big enough to resaw it. Soooo…. I was wondering if I cut it into 2 to 2.5 inch width strips I could use my table saw to ‘split’ to two pieces apart. Then do a glue up with the good pieces. Plain it Flat.  I am thinking of making someone a charcuterie board for thanksgiving. Safe? Doable? 
 

thanks 

Sounds safe to me. I’d get my rip blade sharpened and make sure the splitter/ riving knife was in place. 
 

The other option might be to rip the strip as wide as your bandsaw’s resaw capacity and then resaw on the bandsaw 

Another option is to cut a kerf into both sides and ends as deep as your table will cut then finish using an old fashioned hand rip saw if you have one. Probably would want to do the kerf depth in two or three passes.

Rip then tip.  The quarter sawn edge looks better to me than the face grain of oak. Slice it into strips just a bit thicker than you want your charcuterie board to be, then glue them up side by side. Smooth off both sides using planer or drum sander.   You should end up with plenty of wood for the board. 

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9 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Another option is to cut a kerf into both sides and ends as deep as your table will cut then finish using an old fashioned hand rip saw if you have one. Probably would want to do the kerf depth in two or three passes.

I thought about this but the only hand saw I have is a Japanese one and it is not long enough. 

22 minutes ago, KevTN said:

I thought about this but the only hand saw I have is a Japanese one and it is not long enough. 

 

New project, new tool Kevin

23 minutes ago, Cal said:

 

New project, new tool Kevin

Project tax right....

looks like about 4BF of oak you have there, in a format that is not what you want for the project in mind.  lacking the tools to change format at present, i'd set it aside until a project came up that this format would work for.  the face value of the wood isn't that much, so having to buy a like replacement amount of wood would not be a budget buster if you still want to make your intended project.

 

i made a friend a set of 3 charcuterie boards a few years ago, used some walnut, came out real nice.  in my view, oak, even QS white oak, is a few steps below walnut or maple.

 

or go big:  excuse to buy a new tool!!!

 

my 4 cents.

IMHO, red oak would not be my choice of material for a food item. QSWO, maybe. DAB has it right.