How To Choose An
End Grain Chopping Board

Where it all began; our original range is a firm favourite here at Skinner Designs. It features one species of wood sequentially glued together in a traditional brick pattern using square blocks. You cannot go wrong with this classic design.

Quite simply, stripy boards are created by gluing together various species of wood in alternate patterns. These boards can be very eye catching when you pair a dark wood such as walnut with a species much lighter like maple.

A fairly new addition to our range of boards. This style of chopping board is made using a variety of contrasting woods each bordering the previous species of wood creating a unique bordered look. This can work well with two or more wood species.

Our Modernist boards are made by gluing multiple species of wood together. The glued panels are then processed a further six times. Each resulting cut randomising the pattern, resulting in
a wonderful modernist chopping board.

Forced perspective chopping boards are made by aligning particular shades of timber in clever ways creating a sense of depth or illusion. Many hours go into assembling the correct colours to form the perspective look.

Our newest range, these are one of a kind boards which are individually crafted works of art. You definitely will not want to be cutting on these!

Rather than conventional square blocks of wood we use a variety of different length pieces to totally change the look of these boards. We take great care organising the grain direction on these mixed specie boards to give off that art deco look.

We end up with a lot of off cuts that are generally to small to use. Rather than discarding these pieces we now turn them into thin and generally smaller sized chopping boards at discounted prices.

We are currently experimenting with custom inlay chopping boards that we will hopefully be able to offer in the near future.

Occasionally some defects are found in our finished products. If found on the cutting surface, the boards are listed under our sale range and will have a short description describing the defect and it’s effect on the board.