A hard fought cutting board

Today I had the misguided idea that, rather than waste all of the beautiful Black Oak that Roy the Arborist had felled for us, I was going to make a cutting board out of one of the rounds. I have it from several reliable woodworking sources (one of which isn't the Internet! Can you believe it?!) that the best way to cut the wood is to quarter saw it. Not having any power equipment with me, I started cutting it with our twenty five year old 30 inch Sandvik hand saw. Two hours and a whole lot of cursing later, darkness fell and I started up the lamps and continued sawing. What I ended up with was a malformed and ugly chunk of wood that wouldn't sit down flat on either side. After three hours of sawing. I brought it back to Berkeley for some planing wih Kenji's fancy Japanese tools and managed to correct a lot of the misshapenness, but I'm still not completely satisfied with the result.