Cutting Board Templates
Proven strip patterns, ready to build: each template lists the species, finished size, and lumber to buy, and opens as an editable design in the cutting board designer — live 3D preview and printable cut list included.
All patterns8 templates
Chess Board (End Grain)intermediate64 alternating walnut and maple squares, built end grain with the classic two-glue-up method.Brick PatternintermediateCherry bricks and thin maple mortar lines, offset into a running-bond wall of wood.Chaotic PatternadvancedFive species in irregular widths, end-grain crosscut so the layout never seems to repeat.GradientbeginnerEight strips sweeping maple to ash to cherry to walnut — light to dark across the board.Classic Walnut & Maple StripesbeginnerThe most-built board there is: alternating walnut and maple stripes in a one-glue-up edge-grain panel.Two-Tone (Walnut & Maple)intermediateSolid walnut against solid maple — two clean fields meeting at a center line, end grain up.Butcher BlockbeginnerSix wide strips of hard maple on edge — the traditional butcher block, thick and plain-spoken.Multi-Species MixintermediateSix species of 1″ strips converted to end grain — the scrap-bin classic that reads as a woven mosaic.
Cut-list math matches the end-grain cutting board calculator — same kerf, planing, trim, and waste model. Board-feet estimates include 15% waste.