End-Grain Cutting Board Pattern

A wooden cutting board built so the end grain of the wood, rather than its long face grain, forms the working surface, made by first gluing strips of wood into a larger blank, cutting that blank into rows, and reassembling and gluing the rows with alternating orientation, commonly into brick, checkerboard or diamond patterns. Because knife cuts fall between the wood's exposed fibers rather than across them, an end-grain surface is more forgiving to knife edges and better able to self-heal small cuts than a face-grain board, at the cost of a more involved build.