{"id":4011,"date":"2015-03-30T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thestationerystudio.com\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2015-03-27T10:35:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:35:32","slug":"a-little-wood-ology-about-cutting-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestationerystudio.com\/blog\/a-little-wood-ology-about-cutting-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood-ology 101 on Cutting Board Wood Shades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thestationerystudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/march-woodBoards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4020\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.thestationerystudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/march-woodBoards.jpg\" alt=\"march-woodBoards\" width=\"800\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.thestationerystudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/march-woodBoards.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.thestationerystudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/march-woodBoards-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>Wooden maple cutting boards made with premium quality hard maple wood makes a great portable cutting work surface or an elegant serving tray.\u00a0 They also make a beautiful gift for holidays or anniversaries or housewarming!\u00a0 Here is a little &#8220;wood-ology&#8221; about the variety in wood color, according to one of our leading Maple Leaf experts.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><br class=\"\" \/>There are two types of maple wood that are harvested \u2013 summer maples and winter maples \u2013 when you see a hard maple that has more color that means the wood has been harvested in the summer because the sap in the maple is still in the tree, on a macro level, at the time it was cut.\u00a0 When you see a board that is more toward the cream or white shades, that tree has been typically harvested during the winter and the sap has been harvested from the tree in all likelihood.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><br class=\"\" \/>The boards are a natural product and it will vary.\u00a0 The maple does patina over time and become more honey, especially when treated with butcher block oil.\u00a0 A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestationerystudio.com\/cooking-entertaining\/wood-cutting-boards-c4029.html\" target=\"_blank\">wooden cutting board<\/a> is one of our favorite gift ideas, it&#8217;s something special they likely would not buy for themselves!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Check out our expanded article about this topic, Wood-ology 101, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestationerystudio.com\/studio-insights\/woodology-101.cfm\">Studio Insights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1426688743800_501829\" dir=\"ltr\">Best wishes,<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1426688743800_501831\" dir=\"ltr\">Renee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestationerystudio.com\/blog\/a-little-wood-ology-about-cutting-boards\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>Wooden maple cutting boards made with premium quality hard maple wood makes a great portable cutting work surface or an elegant serving tray.\u00a0 They also make a beautiful gift for holidays or anniversaries or housewarming!\u00a0 Here is a little &#8220;wood-ology&#8221; about the variety in wood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,686,1,13,7],"tags":[718,717,722,719,721,720],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gifts","category-holiday","category-personalized-gift-ideas","category-studionotes","category-thanksgiving","category-wedding","tag-christmas-gift","tag-housewarming-gift","tag-personalized-kitchen-gift","tag-thankgiving-gift","tag-wood-color","tag-wooden-cutting-board"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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