[Greenbuilding] Counters

[Alan Abrams]

yes, butcher block is a careless term; the horizontal strip stock (what I
referred to as Bally type) bears no resemblence to the massive, ancient,
concave butcher block my grandfather had in the back of his shop.  with
regard to beech, I found to my dismay (and expense to replace), it behaved
in the presence of moisture like a cranky two year old, writhing and
twisting to be free of its mother's grasp.


On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:35 PM, natural building
<naturalbuilding at shaw.ca>wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>> 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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