About this batch

The board in the photographs is the board you receive: storm-felled Herefordshire walnut, air-dried two years, shaped along the live edge the tree grew and finished in cold-pressed oil and local beeswax. Around 45 by 22 centimetres and a satisfying heft that comes from a single plank rather than glued strips.

It is a serving board first — the grain figure earns a place on the table — and a light-duty cutting board second, though a heavy chop is better on an end-grain block. Hand engraving is offered: names, dates, or a short line hand-lettered with the grain rather than machine-burned across it; add three days and note your wording at checkout.

Care is five minutes a year: re-oil with any food-safe mineral or walnut oil when the wood looks pale, never soak it, and let it dry on its edge. Do that and it will outlast the kitchen it lives in — the workshop will re-sand and re-finish any board it made for the cost of postage, forever.

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