Timbermere Studio - Chopping Boards
Timbermere StudioBritish-supplied hardwoods, shaped by hand
Selby · North Yorkshire53.7°N — Workshop est. 2019
Handmade wooden chopping boards

Made by hand. Made to be used for decades.

Ready to ship · Food-safe finish · Gift-ready packaging

Handmade wooden chopping boards, made one at a time by Ewald in a workshop outside Selby, North Yorkshire — in six British-supplied hardwoods: European oak, black walnut, American cherry, European beech, Canadian maple and purpleheart.

MaterialBritish-supplied hardwoods
MakerEwald, est. 2019
Ready to shipWithin 2 working days
Ships toGreat Britain & N. Ireland
Timbermere StudioBritish-supplied hardwoods, shaped by hand
Selby · North Yorkshire53.7°N — Workshop est. 2019
Handmade wooden chopping boards
Made by hand.
Made to be used
for forty years.
From the workshop

Handmade wooden chopping boards, made by hand from British-supplied hardwoods in a workshop outside Selby. One maker, small batches, built to outlive their packaging.

Turn toNº 01 · p. 04
The Collection
24 pieces · 6 woods
№ 02 — Process

From plank
to finished piece.

The full process
  1. — I.

    Mill & dry.

    Rough planks, stacked and stickered, air-dry in the workshop until the moisture drops below 10%.

    ~ 6–12 months
  2. — II.

    Plane, shape, sand.

    Hand-planed flat, traced and cut, then sanded through five grits to a 220 finish.

    ~ 3–4 hours
  3. — III.

    Oil, mark, box.

    Two coats of food-safe oil, the maker's mark, and a card naming the wood, the week, the hands.

    ~ 2 days
№ 03The Workshop

A workshop, a bench,
and one pair of hands.

Woodworking design always starts with a careful timber selection
Finishing the board
Chopping boards & serving boards
Choosing the boards
Woodworking design always starts with a careful timber selection
Choosing the boards
01

Wood chosen with intention

Every piece starts with the timber. Colour, grain, contrast, weight and natural figure are considered before the first cut is made.

The wood is not just a material — it is the starting point of the design.

Selection
Hand picked
Focus
Grain & character
Finishing the board
Finishing the board
02

Shaped one piece
at a time, by one maker

Ewald mills, planes, sands, and finishes every piece himself — from rough plank to finished oil. No assembly line. No production runs — only careful decisions made at the bench, one stage at a time.

What you get is a piece with the maker's hand in it, not a copy.

Method
One maker
Production
Small batches
Chopping boards & serving boards
Chopping boards & serving boards
03

Built for real use

Whether it is a chopping board for daily cooking, a serving board for the table, or a piece made as a gift, it is made to be handled, used and lived with.

Rounded edges, clean surfaces, thoughtful details and carefully chosen finishes turn raw timber into something made for everyday life.

Range
Chopping & serving boards
Detail
Shaped, sanded & finished

“We don't make disposable. We make the kind of object you wash by hand, that gets better the more it's used, that one day belongs to your children.”

Ewald, Founder & Maker
№ 04 — Materials

Choose your wood.

European Oak

European Oak

Quercus robur · Germany

A pale honey-gold hardwood that deepens beautifully with age and oil. European Oak is strong, open-grained, and famously durable, long used in furniture, joinery, beams, and hard-working surfaces across Europe. Best for chopping boards and pieces that need to feel solid, practical, and made for real everyday use.

Hardness
Janka 1,120
Grain
Open, straight
Origin
Germany

Gifts welcome — add a note at checkout. No prices in the box.

№ 05 — Journal

Notes from the bench.

A handmade end-grain wooden chopping board on a kitchen worktop.
24 June 20264 min read

How to look after a wooden chopping board

Most boards don't wear out — they dry out. Here's the five-minute routine that keeps a wooden board going for decades, the handful of things that genuinely ruin one, and how to bring a tired board back to life.

Read the journal →

Fin.Vol. VII · Selby, N. Yorkshire

Set in Fraunces and Inter. Printed on Bone & Walnut. Bound by hand.

Every board, in one place.

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