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And traditional 'Butcher blocks' were made from Beech because it is so solid and stable...

Steve Satow

www.naturalbuildingsite.net
naturalbuilding at shaw.ca

On 2011-07-27, at 9:10 AM, Reuben Deumling wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Bobbi Chukran <bobbi at bobbichukran.com> wrote:
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> After a lot of thought and research, I'm probably going to go the butcherblock route.  We have oak butcherblock counters in this current house (bought at IKEA--yes, the wood was probably imported), and we love them.
> 
> Do you really mean butcher block? Cause that consists of lots and lots of blocks arranged with the end grain facing up = the work surface. For reasons I don't understand people have gotten in the habit of referring to all manner of glued up wooden surfaces: counters, cutting boards, etc. as butcher block, even though the visible surface on those more often than not is edge grain. 
> Just clarifying what we're talking about here.
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