Maple Butcher Blocks
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Maple wood butcher blocks can add a unique and custom style to your kitchen. When you choose to purchase a custom maple block from MHW, you are making a solid investment for your kitchen, as our blocks are built to last you a lifetime. We offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee on all of our cutting boards and butcher blocks.
Invest in Longevity
- All of our maple butcher blocks are locally and ethically sourced domestic hardwoods
- Our blocks are milled close to 2” thick for durability, which is thicker than most competitors
- Quality construction equals longevity and reduces warpage and cracking
- Our boards are constructed using water-proof glues
- All of our products are proudly built in the USA – real craftsmen, not made in China with cheap labor
- All boards are oiled and ready for use with a food safe mineral oil
- Precision milled, assembled and glued by using best practice techniques
- Optional engraving performed via precision laser for superior accuracy
- 30-Day Guarantee on our craftsmanship to protect your investment
- Carefully prepared, wrapped and packaged for secure transit using Fedex or UPS
- Free Ground shipping within the U.S. to all lower 48 states
About Our Maple Wood Butcher Blocks
or any and all kitchen items from cutting boards and bowls to butcher blocks and countertops, there are countless things that must be taken into account. Unlike other wood projects, items found in the kitchen must also consider water damage, how these materials interact with kitchen utensils, whether or not these woods will lead to bacteria growth unknowingly, and whether they can withstand the continual use that is required of them.
With these concepts in mind, maple wood was one of the very first woods to be considered. Not only is maple wood known for its density and neutral tone that makes it perfect for various stains and projects but it is also fine-pored and highly durable. In fact, according to the Wood Database, “Hard maple ought to be considered the king of the Acer genus. Its wood is stronger, stiffer, harder, and denser than all of the other species of maple commercially available in lumber form.”
However, to better understand just what makes maple wood so ideal for cutting boards and butcher blocks alike, let’s take a look at its main characteristics, strengths and weaknesses, and how this all applies to butcher blocks specifically below.
The Main Characteristics of Maple Wood
Maple wood typically has a lighter color with subtle variations that range from nearly white to pale golden or even light tan. This natural, neutral color makes it a popular choice for cutting boards, as it provides a clean, versatile look that complements a variety of design styles and can go with almost any kitchen. Whether you’re going to use your maple board for chopping vegetables and meat, or displaying a charcuterie spread, maple wood is a beautiful choice.
Known for its subtle and close grain pattern, this species of wood has a clean and minimalist feel compared to other woods that are naturally more detailed with darker grain patterns. Maple also will show straight and wavy lines when it comes to the grain presentation.
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What are the Most Common Uses for Maple Wood?
Maple wood comes in both hard and soft wood forms. Surprisingly, unlike cherry wood, maple wood’s sapwood is used far more often than its heartwood. Maple is one of the most popular woods in America for furniture making and is incredibly easy to grow and manufacture making it highly accessible compared to other popular woods on the market.
While the most common grain pattern in maple wood is straight-grained, you can also find birdseye grain patterns and swirl patterns in the harder wood specifically. Maple also has a fine and even texture to its grain making it perfect for all kinds of projects.
Soft maple is most commonly used for its density and durability in furniture making, construction, and flooring while woodworkers adore the sugar maple tree with its hard wood that is very easy to work with and shape accordingly. Soft maple has a 1,450 rating on the Janka scale making it one of the hardest domestic woods on the market likewise.
Because maple is such a light color, maple is often used to mimic other hardwoods such as walnut or cherry when they are harder to find during certain times of the year. This makes it incredibly versatile and means that you can stain your maple wood any way you please.
Lastly, maple is very resistant to scratches which is why it is one of the most top-used materials for furniture, flooring, and kitchen items specifically. While cutting on a plastic or cheap wood butcher block is sure to cause deep grooves that collect bacteria and can lead to illness in the consumer, maple wood butcher blocks are sure to be able to withstand cutting and wear without warping, splitting, or collecting food bacteria.
Protect Your Investment
Our board butter is a great way to keep your maple wood butcher block in great condition for years; and is also 100% food-safe.
Maple Wood’s Strengths
While maple wood remains one of the singular best woods on the market in a number of ways, when looking into what made this wood good for cutting boards and butcher blocks specifically, we chose to not just focus on its strengths but its weaknesses as well. With this being said, below are not just the highlights of maple wood but its pitfalls as well. By looking at both sides of this material, we hope it will be exceptionally obvious as to why this wood is one of our top three materials for production.
Maple wood is considered one of the most highly durable woods on the market as it has one of the highest Janka scale ratings, does not warp or bend easily, and is shock, cut, and dent-resistant. On top of this, maple wood is also straight-grained for the most part and fine-pored making it very sturdy and sound for construction, flooring, furniture building, and design alike. This is why it is so common in the furniture and flooring industry.
The versatility of maple wood is where this material truly shines. Maple wood can be used for countless projects and comes both as a soft and hard form making it perfect for countless industries. You can carve the heartwood of this tree with ease and use its sapwood to create the sturdiest furniture imaginable all while staining it any color you please since its natural neutral tone is great to mimic any and all wood colors and grain patterns.
While some wood materials are harder to find or manufacture, the ease in which maple wood is produced and the amount that is produced yearly makes it far more affordable for its high quality than other woods at the same level. On top of this, the fast that it lasts for far longer than other products made of different materials means that it is also cost-effective as well. This makes its low price even more enticing to countless industries and consumers.
Since maple wood is easy to produce and manufacture with very little effort, maple wood is considered one of the most eco-friendly and sustainable woods on the market. It can also be used to mimic more endangered wood species and this helps the environment significantly likewise. Furthermore, maple wood is consistently producing oxygen for our atmosphere and, at the rate that it is manufactured, this makes a big impact on our ecosystem yearly.
Lastly, maple wood is superbly easy to find because it is produced in countless areas across the nation and in mass production. The most common production location is near the Great Lakes but it is shipped across the nation daily and is one of the most popular woods out there so the supply accounts for this always.
With the highlights of maple wood now broken down, let’s take a look at the few weaknesses that must be considered with this material to determine if it is useful for your household products below.
How Do These Qualities Make for a High-Class Maple Butcher Block?
All in all, maple wood isn’t just a highly durable, dense, and affordable wood but it is also one of the very best woods out there for making long-lasting and high-quality butcher blocks. This is why it continues to be one of our main woods for production as our customers’ satisfaction is a top priority. We hope to keep every client happy for years to come with the best products available made of the best materials known to man. For more information regarding wood cutting board care, check out our in-depth article ‘6 Ways to Naturally Clean a Wood Cutting Board.
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Frequently Asked Questions
All of our cutting boards are designed and built using locally sourced wood from multiple suppliers in the area. We are based in Nampa, Idaho and are proud to deliver our products to customers across the nation.
12-15 days is our normal turn-around time during non-peak times of the year such as the holidays. Because your cutting board will be handmade, we are confident that waiting approximately 2 weeks will be well worth it.
We ship using both UPS and FedEx. Depending on the size of the board, as well as the shipping destination, this helps us determine the best option to get it to you the quickest. All of our boards are carefully wrapped and packaged to avoid damage during shipping.
Most cutting boards you find at stores are mass-produced, and most of them made in China. Our products are not only handmade in the USA, but our boards are built up to 2 inches in thickness, which means the durability level is unmatched when compared to other brands.
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