Christmas was coming – and with it, the desire to give something more than a ‘trinket’ which gets set aside almost as quickly as it is opened.
With many hardwood remnants in the shop, including some Holly I’d picked up a few months back, building a few cutting boards seemed like a natural for the season.
Yes, I have a natural aversion to putting sharp objects (knives) against silky-smooth cutting boards – small consolation, I’m not the one with the knife doing the cutting :-0
For these pieces, the woods used included – cherry (hmmm, love the smell of cut cherry!), walnut, zebra wood, tiger maple, and some of the holly I mentioned earlier. While expensive, holly is a beautiful accent wood, nearly white, with an exceptionally fine grain and uninterrupted by figure.
All around, beautiful pieces. You agree?
