Start a Business - The Knotty Lumber Co.
✓ 100% Satisfaction Guarantee  ·  7,300+ Woodworkers Served  ·  Hamilton, Ontario
Thinking about buying a franchise?
Start with a case,
not a fee.
Hardwood cutting boards for B2B or B2C — gifts, resale, or supply. Ready to finish or ready to sell, your brand, your price.
  • Ready-to-finish blanks or finished boards out of the box
  • Milled in Hamilton, Ontario
  • Sell under your own name
Shop Cutting Board Blanks
Request pricing, get your first case, start selling this week.
Seven hardwood cutting board blank species and patterns
The Next Step
Start with a case,
not a fee.
You're thinking about this because you're ready to build something. Keep that.
A case of boards is a business you can start this week, run from a kitchen table, and grow at your pace.
Keep 100% of what you sell. Put your name on every board.
What Arrives At Your Door
Two products.
Pick your starting line.
Edge-grain cutting board blanks in Black Walnut, Ambrosia Maple, Maple and more — sized for personalization, gifting and resale. Below: we cut open a box of ready-to-finish blanks on camera so you see exactly what Option 1 looks like when it lands.
  • Professionally glued up — no gaps, no voids
  • Consistent thickness and dimensions, so your branding repeats every time
  • Milled in-house from rough lumber in Hamilton, Ontario
Option 1 · Ready to Finish · Unboxing
Raw blanks, glued up and drum-sanded to 120 grit. This is what you finish, brand and sell.
Option 1 · Shown in video
Ready to Finish

Milled and drum-sanded blanks for buyers who finish, brand or engrave themselves. Sand, oil, and sell. That's it.

Option 2 · We finish it for you
Ready Out of the Box

Bulk-finished boards — sanded, food-safe oiled, inspected and packaged. Shelf-ready for buyers who only want to sell.

Three Paths
Every path runs on the same board.
Pick how much of the work you want to own.
Path 01
Sell It Out of the Box
  • Finished boards in bulk. Nothing to build
  • Gifts, local resale, market tables, corporate and realtor gifting
  • Sell a case first. See how it feels to have your own product move
No tools. No workshop. Just boards.
Most Popular
Path 02
Make It Yours
  • Ready-to-finish blanks. Sand, oil, brand, engrave, package
  • Your finish, your logo, your price
  • Start with ten. Scale when the orders say so
Every board sells whether it's your tenth or your thousandth.
Path 03
Both at Once
  • Finished boards for cash flow now, blanks for margin as you go
  • Shift volume from finished to blanks as your speed and finish improve
  • Same supplier, same species, same dimensions
Nothing changes but who does the finishing.
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Which Species?
Grain this good sells itself.
All three work beautifully as cutting boards. Your choice comes down to the look your customers will pay for.
Ambrosia Maple cutting board blank
Most Popular
Ambrosia Maple

Dramatic grey-blue streaking. Every blank is unique — no two look the same. The most visual drama per board.

Black Walnut cutting board blank
Premium Choice
Black Walnut

Rich chocolate heartwood, subtle grain. The gold standard for premium boards. Deepens with age.

Cherry cutting board blank
Warm & Timeless
Cherry

Warm reddish tones that deepen into a rich patina over time. Smooth grain, high-end look. Ideal for laser engraving.

Apply One Coat of Oil. Watch This Happen.
Raw Ambrosia Maple
Before — Raw Ambrosia
Oiled Ambrosia Maple
After — One Coat Oil
Raw Black Walnut
Before — Raw Walnut
Oiled Black Walnut
After — One Coat Oil
"The wood is almost too nice to cut up! Beautiful graining — no prep work other than a light sanding."— Keith R. · Verified Buyer · 5★
How It Works
Three steps.
STEP 01
Request Pricing

Species, size, rough quantity. We reply personally.

STEP 02
Choose Your Product

Ready-to-finish, ready out of the box, or both.

STEP 03
Sell Under Your Name

Your brand, your customers, your margin.

What Buyers Say
Boards already selling under other people's names.
7,300+Woodworkers served
4.8★Average rating
375+Verified reviews
2021Hamilton, Ontario
★★★★★

"Packaged well and arrived quickly. Made some beautiful boards. Ordered another pack already!!!"

— Glenn
★★★★★

"EXCELLENT! The quality of the boards was second to none!!"

— Marty
★★★★★

"More than happy with my order. They were more than obliging customizing my order."

— John
The Knotty Lumber Co. shop
100% Satisfaction Guarantee

Don't love the wood — we replace it. No questions, no stress, no risk. We run a full furniture studio in Hamilton and every blank meets the same standard we build with.

Wholesale Pricing
Get wholesale pricing.
Tell us what you're building. We reply personally.
No drip campaign. No sales call unless you want one.
Before You Order
Every question answered.
No. Buy finished boards and sell them as-is. When you want to do the finishing yourself, the blanks are ready — a light sand, food-safe oil, and board butter is the whole process.
Ask. We work with first-timers and volume buyers, and we'll tell you honestly what makes sense for what you're building.
Yes. Bulk finishing is available — sanded, food-safe oiled, inspected and packaged. You receive shelf-ready boards.
That's the point. Engrave, brand, package and price them as your own product.
Milled in-house from rough hardwood lumber at our shop in Hamilton, Ontario — the same wood we build furniture with.
100% satisfaction. Don't love the wood — we replace it or refund it. No fine print.
You're already thinking about it.
Here's a place to start.
Hardwood cutting boards, ready to finish or ready to sell. Your brand, our blanks.
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The Knotty Lumber Co. · Hamilton, Ontario · Founded on a love of wood