Woodworker's Journal

Accented Cutting Board

Chop, chop, chippity chop, cut off the bottom, cut off the top, what you got left throw into the pot! Chop, chop, chippity chop!

My four kids like to say this fun little rhyme when they are chopping vegetables. And that happens a lot, because my family loves to cook. We spend a lot of time together in the kitchen. So when we needed a new cutting board to replace an old one recently, I wanted to make something different from the usual square or rectangular cutting boards you see in stores. I am a woodworker after all, and surely I could try out a few fun ideas I had in mind.

However, in our home, making something practical is also very important. I try to live by the motto, “if it’s going to be in the

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