Chopping block

[Peter]

Thats a nice chopping board/table top, but its not a butcher's block......

[skyhuck]

Butchers blocks are Sycamore.

[Hodge]

  skyhuck said:

Butchers blocks are Sycamore.

 

That's what I thought, I have also heard elm can be used??

[Gary Prentice]

  skyhuck said:

Butchers blocks are Sycamore.

 

Than can be also beech, ash or even walnut too. Or any hard maple.

[Gary Prentice]

  PMH Tree Surgeons Kendal said:

That's what I thought, I have also heard elm can be used??

 

Would elm be too porous like oak?

[muttley9050]

To me the definition of a butchers block doesn't mean type of wood at all, simply means it an endgrain board made up of smallish blocks. I maybe wrong but that's how I see it.

[Peter]

Precisely, all bound together with a metal band.

 

 

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[Paul Smith]

  muttley9050 said:

To me the definition of a butchers block doesn't mean type of wood at all, simply means it an endgrain board made up of smallish blocks. I maybe wrong but that's how I see it.

 

👍 sycamore, hornbeam is also good!

[Justme]

  Peter said:

Precisely, all bound together with a metal band.

 

 

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Having been a butcher long ago I can honestly say I have not seen a metal banded one now for about 20 years. You do see lots of old well used ones with metal corner braces but mainly sold for the designer kitchen market.

 

They now all tend to be either glued & short bolted or through bolted with plastic caps. The one that this is replacing is rag bolted with plastic caps filling the recess.

 

Plus lots of the new ones are now plastic but thankfully they are not as common now as when they first came in.

 

Having just found out that spalted beech sells for £70-120 per cuft I am tempted to do this one job & them skim the top & sell it.