Maple & Walnut
I just finished this rustic Butcher Block Kitchen Island with a built-in chessboard. It was a custom build designed and constructed to my customer’s exact specifications. It was sized specifically for my customer’s kitchen space and designed to be a fully functional butcher block cutting surface. It was glued up with 2” stripes of 8/4 maple accented with walnut for the chessboard and the bottom stretcher. It is also built to be transportable. It is built in four separate pieces, easily taken apart with two pins to hold the center stretcher in place. The extremely heavy and stable top is set on the trestle-style legs and held in place with four 5/8” metal dowels.
