On Thursday, 18 May 2017 21:55:22 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 18/05/2017 15:51, dennis@home wrote:
On 18/05/2017 11:23, Andy Burns wrote:
fred wrote:

I think it unlikley it is genuine butcher block.

Yeah, butcher block would generally be end grain running vertical,
it'll likely be finger-jointed oak staves, but ikea et al describe
that as "butcher block", or at least the people buying it do ...


Most of them will never have seen a real butcher block.

It has to be end grain or it will just have loads of bits coming off
every time you use a cleaver or even just a big knife.

When I had a school time job working in a butchers it was cleaned using
a metal scraper that looked like a scrubbing brush and then washed and
scrubbed. This is why they are always uneven as it removes a bit every day.

They are also about 150mm thick and weigh a ton.

I expect they are bloody expensive too.

You could probably make one a bit more cheaply by buying the ikea
version, cutting into 6" lengths and then re-gluing as a proper end
grain board ;-)


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Cheers,

John.

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Actually you can get end grain slabs very cheaply as it is going to be scrape-scrubbed with hot water every day so there is no need to dry it. The problem is finding a supply of beech or sycamore or whatever they use.

But back to the problem the way to hide the stains is to use it so often you never notice tham. It becomes like a shalk board after lots of use you don't see the chalk for the black board.

Wash it clean and you can see that someone had been writing on it just before the next lesson.