This relatively thin board is strong and durable, but easy to move around since it is lightweight. It is also reversible. It is what one calls a face grain design.
"Face grain" design means that the wood is laid out with the pretty side facing up (the cutting surface). This allows the wonderful grain of the woods to show. It does show knife marks a bit over time, that's just how a face grain cutting board works. It can be maintained with an oil such as mineral oil, or a Howard's product (from Amazon). Or I could offer you some of my mineral oil and bee's wax mixture that makes the board completely waterproof and really fills in knife marks. Or if you are confident with a sanding block, you could take off a millimeter of wood and expose new, perfect grain maybe twice a year! If this is used in your home once or twice a day (i.e., not a restaurant) and not put in the dishwasher, I expect it would last you no less than five years if you maintain it in the way I suggest.
The woods used are (from left to right in the main photo): cherry, teak, cherry, African padauk, black walnut, African padauk, and hickory.
The board pictured in the photos recently sold, so if you purchase this one, please immediately email me and tell me you either like these woods and this pattern, or that you'd prefer some difference in woods or shape or size or edge treatment. I will keep the price the same under most circumstances.
