Introducing the Custom 12×28 Cherry Edge Grain Cutting Board, a luxurious addition to your kitchen, proudly made in the USA. Designed for serious home cooks, professional chefs, and entertainers alike, this oversized cutting board offers an expansive work surface crafted from premium cherry wood. Its edge grain construction provides durability and beauty, making it ideal for both heavy-duty food prep and elegant serving. Handcrafted with care and precision, this cutting board is the perfect blend of functionality, style, and craftsmanship.
Key Features:
Expansive 12×28 Surface: Measuring 12 x 28 inches, this cutting board offers a massive work area perfect for large kitchen tasks. Whether youโre carving roasts, chopping vegetables, or prepping ingredients for a feast, the generous surface allows you to work efficiently with plenty of space. It also makes an excellent serving board for charcuterie, bread, or cheese spreads, offering a stunning presentation for entertaining guests.
Premium Cherry Wood: Crafted from high-quality, sustainably sourced cherry wood, this cutting board showcases the rich, warm hues and fine grain that cherry is known for. Cherry wood is prized for its natural beauty, and over time it darkens and develops a deeper, richer patina. The woodโs smooth texture provides a gentle cutting surface that is resistant to knife marks, ensuring your board looks beautiful for years to come.
Edge Grain Construction: The boardโs edge grain construction enhances its strength and durability. In this technique, the wood fibers run lengthwise across the board, creating a stable, solid surface that can withstand heavy use without warping or cracking. The smooth, knife-friendly surface also helps keep your blades sharper for longer, making it perfect for daily use. Edge grain boards are known for their durability and longevity, making this an investment that will last for years.
Handcrafted in the USA: Every cutting board is meticulously handcrafted by skilled artisans in the USA, ensuring exceptional quality and attention to detail. From selecting the finest cherry wood to the precise finishing touches, each board is made with care and expertise. By choosing this cutting board, youโre supporting local craftsmanship and high-quality American-made products.
Customizable: Personalize this cutting board to make it truly unique. Add a custom engraving such as a family name, special date, or meaningful message to create a one-of-a-kind piece. Personalized cutting boards make thoughtful gifts for weddings, anniversaries, housewarmings, and holidays, providing a sentimental touch that will be cherished for years.
Easy to Maintain: Keeping your cutting board looking and performing its best is simple. Hand wash with mild soap and warm water, and dry immediately to avoid moisture buildup. To maintain the woodโs natural beauty and prevent drying or cracking, apply food-safe mineral oil or beeswax regularly. With proper care, your cherry cutting board will age beautifully, developing a rich patina over time.
Eco-Friendly and Sustainably Sourced: We prioritize eco-conscious practices, using only sustainably harvested cherry wood. This ensures that your cutting board is not only a premium-quality product but also an environmentally responsible choice. By choosing this board, youโre supporting sustainable forestry and reducing your ecological impact.
Ideal for Food Prep, Serving, and Entertaining
The Custom 12×28 Cherry Edge Grain Cutting Board is designed to handle even the most demanding kitchen tasks with ease, while its large size and elegant wood finish make it an exceptional serving piece. Whether youโre preparing a large meal, carving a roast, or arranging an impressive charcuterie spread, this cutting board offers both the space and style you need.
Combining a generous size, stunning cherry wood construction, and impeccable craftsmanship, the Custom 12×28 Cherry Edge Grain Cutting Board is an essential tool for anyone who loves to cook, serve, and entertain. Its versatile design makes it perfect for daily kitchen tasks or as a striking centerpiece for your next gathering.
Locally hand-selected American hardwoods โ ethically sourced, never imported commodity lumber
Milled up to 2″ thick โ nearly double the industry standard, which means less warping, longer life, and a board that feels substantial in hand
Waterproof glue construction โ joints won’t fail from repeated washing or moisture exposure\
Pre-oiled with food-safe mineral oil and arrives ready to use straight out of the box
Handmade in the USA by skilled craftsmen in Nampa, Idaho โ not mass-produced overseas
Precision laser engraving available โ clean, permanent, and reviewed for accuracy before it touches your board
Fully customizable: choose your wood, size, juice grooves, handles, rubber feet, and engraving
30-Day Satisfaction Guarantee – your investment is protected
Every order is individually wrapped and packaged to arrive in perfect condition via FedEx or UPS
Free ground shipping to all lower 48 states โ no minimum, no hidden fees
Step 1: Placing Your Order
Your journey begins when you place an order through our website.
Each order is treated as a made-to-order piece, not a mass-produced item pulled from a warehouse shelf.
Once your order is received:
We review size, thickness, wood selection, and engraving details
Your board is scheduled into our production workflow
Any custom engraving is carefully verified for accuracy and layout
This ensures nothing moves forward until every detail is right.
Step 2: Selecting the Right Woods
The foundation of a great cutting board is the wood itself.
We only work with hardwoods known for durability, stability, and food safety.
We source our lumber locally from trusted suppliers including:
Hudson & West (Meridian, Idaho)
High Desert Hardwood (Eagle, Idaho)
Each board begins with hand-selected lumber that is:
Kiln-dried to proper moisture levels
Inspected for grain quality and structural integrity
Matched for color consistency and grain flow
Whether itโs maple, walnut, cherry, or a blended design, wood selection is done intentionally
โbecause the right wood blend directly affects longevity, resistance to warping, and knife-friendliness.
Step 3: Precision Milling & Assembly
Once the wood is selected, itโs milled and prepared for assembly.
Our process includes:
Planing each piece to exact thickness
Aligning grain direction to reduce future movement
Arranging strips for both strength and visual balance
Boards are then glued and clamped under controlled pressure to ensure:
Seamless joints
Long-term structural stability
No weak points between wood strips
Many of our boards are crafted at 2 inches thick, which significantly reduces the risk of warping
and provides the solid, professional feel our customers expect.
Step 4: Shaping, Sanding & Detailing
After assembly, each board is shaped and refined.
This includes:
Precision cutting to final dimensions
Routing edges and juice grooves (when applicable)
Multi-stage sanding to achieve an ultra-smooth surface
We donโt rush sanding. Each board is progressively sanded to eliminate tool marks,
soften edges, and create a surface that feels just as good as it looks.
Step 5: Custom Engraving with Accuracy
If your board includes engraving, this step is handled with exceptional care.
Our engraving process focuses on:
Accurate depth for clarity without compromising strength
Clean, sharp lines that wonโt fade over time
Careful placement to complement the boardโs grain pattern
Every engraving design is double-checked before cutting.
Once engraved, the board is lightly sanded again to remove any raised fibers while preserving crisp detail.
This ensures your engraving looks intentionalโnot rushed or burned in.
Step 6: Sealing & Conditioning
Proper sealing is critical to a cutting boardโs lifespan.
Each board is saturated with:
Food-safe mineral oil
Finished with a protective board butter blend
This process:
Penetrates deep into the wood fibers
Enhances natural color and grain contrast
Creates a moisture-resistant surface that protects against cracking and drying
We never use shortcuts or surface-only finishes.
Our boards are conditioned multiple times to ensure long-term protection right out of the box.
Step 7: Final Inspection & Packaging
Before packaging, every cutting board undergoes a final hands-on inspection:
Surface smoothness
Edge consistency
Engraving clarity
Overall craftsmanship
Once approved, your board is packaged specifically for safe shipping:
Wrapped to protect against moisture and impact
Secured to prevent movement during transit
Boxed to arrive in the same condition it left our shop
When purchasing a custom cutting board or butcher block from our company, you can feel confident knowing that all of our products are hand-made in the USA by our dedicated in-house team. Our company, Mahogany House Woodworks, is located just outside of Boise, Idaho and has been creating high-quality wood products for customers across the United States for over 20 years. We back our cutting boards and butcher blocks with a 30-day guarantee to make sure your investment is protected. All of our cutting boards are built using locally sourced and hand-picked woods.
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Do you want a special message, initials, or picture engraved on your cutting board? We offer custom engraving as a great add-on for all of our custom cutting boards and butcher blocks. Our team can help make your new cutting board feel so personalized.
Our Engraving Process Explained
Before any engraving happens, we start with the foundation: the board itself. Every board we produce is milled, sanded, and finished in-house using carefully selected hardwoods known for stability and grain clarity.
Why does this matter for engraving?
Wood is a natural material. Grain density, hardness, and movement vary slightly from board to boardโeven within the same species. We account for those differences before engraving ever begins. Boards are fully acclimated, flattened, and finished to ensure the surface is perfectly level and stable. A flat surface equals consistent engraving depth and razor-sharp detail.
Precision engraving can only happen on a properly prepared board.
We Digital Proof for Exact Accuracy
Every engraving begins digitally. Text, layouts, and logos are carefully prepared using professional design softwareโnot automated templates.
This step allows us to:
Ensure proper spacing and alignment
Scale designs precisely to the board size
Preserve fine details in logos and fonts
Avoid distortion caused by wood grain direction
**For custom logos and detailed artwork, we optimize the design specifically for wood engraving, not just screen viewing. What looks good on a monitor doesnโt always translate cleanly into hardwoodโso we adjust line weight, depth, and spacing for real-world results.
Accuracy at this stage prevents errors later.
CNC Laser-Guided Engraving – The Best of the Best
Our engraving is performed using CNC-controlled, laser-guided equipment that allows for extreme accuracyโdown to fractions of a millimeter. This ensures:
Clean, consistent letterforms
Even engraving depth across the entire design
Perfect symmetry and alignment
But hereโs the part most people donโt realize: precision machines still require skilled human oversight.
Every wood species engraves differently. Hard maple behaves differently than walnut or cherry. We manually adjust engraving depth, speed, and power based on:
Wood hardness
Grain density
Board thickness
Desired contrast
This isnโt a one-setting-fits-all operation. Each engraving is dialed in specifically for the board itโs going on.
We Practice Depth Control Which Protects the Board
One of the biggest mistakes in wood engraving is going too deep. Over-engraving weakens the board, creates rough edges, and makes the surface harder to maintain.
We engrave deep enough for clarity and longevityโbut never so deep that it compromises the boardโs integrity. This balance ensures:
The engraving remains readable for years
The board stays structurally strong
The surface can still be properly maintained with board butter and oil
Accuracy isnโt just about looksโitโs about long-term durability.
Clean Edges, No Burn Marks
Laser engraving on wood can easily leave burn marks, excessive charring, or fuzzy edges if not handled correctly. We take extra steps to ensure clean, professional results:
Controlled power settings to minimize scorching
Post-engraving hand inspection
Light finishing passes when necessary to remove residue without softening detail
The result is crisp lettering with natural contrastโnever harsh or overburned.
Hand Inspection, Every Time
No engraved board leaves our shop without a final human inspection. We check for:
Correct spelling and layout
Proper alignment and centering
Consistent depth across the entire engraving
Smooth edges and clean finish
If something doesnโt meet our standards, it doesnโt ship. Period.
View some of our cutting board engraving examples below:
Weโre so convinced that youโll be satisfied with your new cutting board or butcher block, that we proudly offer a 30-day money-back guarantee on all of our boards. Our boards are all hand-built in the USA to ensure the highest level of detail, strength and durability needed to last. Whether you order a maple, walnut, cherry board, or have us build you something entirely unique and custom, your investment is backed by our guarantee to ensure your satisfaction.
Step 2: Selecting the Right Woods
Step 3: Precision Milling & Assembly
Step 4: Shaping, Sanding & Detailing
Step 5: Custom Engraving with Accuracy
Step 6: Sealing & Conditioning
Step 7: Final Inspection & Packaging
