Why chefs choose end grain
Most cutting boards are cut with the grain — you're slicing straight across long wood fibres, and every cut leaves a scar. End grain is different: the fibres stand on end, like a bundle of straws. A blade slips between them instead of across them, and the wood flexes back closed.
The result is a surface that's gentler on your knife edge and shows wear far more slowly. This one is hand-assembled from hundreds of individual walnut blocks, glued, pressed, and planed flat in a checkerboard pattern that's never quite the same twice.
Specifications
Up close
Handcrafted in Canada
One board at a time, from solid North American hardwood — not veneer, not composite.
- — Walnut is sourced and milled from North American hardwood — full solid blocks throughout.
- — Every board is built, glued, and flattened by hand in our workshop — no two grain patterns come out the same.
- — Finished with food-safe oil before it ships, so it's ready to use straight out of the box.
Living with it
A light coat of food-safe mineral oil keeps the wood from drying and cracking. More often in the first few months.
Hand wash with mild soap, warm water, dry standing up. Prolonged soaking is the one thing end grain doesn't forgive.
Small surface marks from use are normal and expected — light sanding and re-oiling brings the surface back like new.
Shipping to Singapore
Free shipping
No shipping charge on orders to Singapore for this test run. Fully tracked from dispatch to your door.
7–14 day delivery
Ships from our Canadian workshop. You'll get a tracking link the moment it leaves.
Arrives safe, or we fix it
Boards are crated for international transit. Anything damaged in shipping is replaced or refunded — just send a photo.