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I have had this cutting board for about a year now and I love it. Unlike other reviewers mine has not warped at all, and after at least twice daily use for the past year it is still like new. The board is very durable and shows very little wear compared to my old John Boos boards. I like to keep my knives extremely sharp and when ever I would use my Shun knives on my other boards they would leave noticeable scratches in the boards, but not with the Totally Bamboo Congo board. Thanks to its end grain construction I cannot hardly even see any wear on it.

On the other hand, I do know a lot of people seem to have had problems with warping and I am not sure as to why, maybe some are just bad batches and I just got lucky and got a good one, however one thing that I have done to prevent warping is the same process I have always done for all my wood or bamboo items. When I first received a wood or bamboo item I oil it with mineral oil all over, front, back, and on all the sides; but the key is to keep oiling it until no more oil will absorb in it. You can tell when it can not absorb any more oil by letting the oil sit on the surface for a hour or so and you will still have a lot of oil on the surface that can not be absorbed then all you have to do is just wipe up the excess oil and it is ready for use.

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This is a nice cutting board and was ranked highest by America's test kitchen. It is a managable size but still large enough to prepare most dishes. The board seems easy on my knives but does not mark easily.

My board did seem to warp slightly however, which makes it rock during cutting. I placed a towell underneath it to stablize it, which seems to do the trick.

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This is a beautiful cutting board recommended highly by Cooks magazine. Unfortunately, it is warped convex on one side and concave on the other. I tried two and had the same problem. Too bad since it really looks nice!

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This is the second TB Congo I have purchased in the last month. I've thrown out all of my other boards. The board is the perfect size and heft and is downright beautiful. With proper maintenance, I expect a long life from these boards.

My Amazon experience this second time was disappointing.

The board arrived in the bottom of a large box with the protectant air bags on top of the board. Any impacts to the bottom of the box would have damaged the board. I was lucky. Additionally, this board came with one loop of jute twine around it and one TB tag. It was clearly a (barely) "repackaged" return from someone else. My first TB board was entirely wrapped front and back and packaged securely, surrounded with air bags.

I expect and have gotten better from Amazon.

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Owned for a year now. This board was highly recommended by Cook's Illustrated, so I bought it. It came slightly warped, which worsened with time. Cracked as well -even though I oiled it a few times.