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Aldo's Olive Cutting Board

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Aldo's Olive Cutting Board

Aldo's Olive Cutting Board

€52,95
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Cut and carved by Aldo Salvetti · Corning, California

Cut from a single slab, four miles from the tree

Aldo Salvetti, 68, forty years in olive wood. His grandfather planted the block in 1931. When it was cleared in 1986 the trees went on a burn pile — he dragged one trunk off it and cut a board for his mother. It is still the only thing he makes.

2,710 Janka hardness — hard maple is ~1,450
1 in 5 Blanks rejected
40 Years at one bench
Zero Bearing trees ever cut

“A bowl goes in a cupboard. A cutting board lives on your counter. That is the whole reason it is the only thing I still make.”

Aldo Salvetti · Corning, California
What arrives
I The Cutting Board One slab, no seam. Live edge, carved hand hole, both faces finished.
II Already Oiled Food-grade mineral oil. Ready to use or to give.
III Measurement Card The real size and weight of your board. Not a range.
IV Ninety Days Not right? Send it back for a full refund.
 What sets it apart from a store-bought cutting board Six things, and every one is something you can check yourself.
01 One piece, no seam Most cutting boards are four or five strips held with glue, and the join is what opens first. This one has none — turn it over and check.
02 Janka 2,710 Nearly twice as hard as the maple in most American kitchens. That density is why knife marks stay shallow instead of turning into grooves.
03 Dried over months Olive leaves the tree more than half water. Air-dried, kilned to 8 percent, then rested. Rush it and a hairline opens six weeks later.
04 California, not an import Cut, dried and boxed in Tehama County, four miles from where the tree stood. No customs, no duty, no three-week gap where nobody can say where the box is.
05 Arrives finished Handmade cutting boards are famous for turning up raw and dusty. Yours is oiled, wiped and boxed before it leaves the shop.
06 A practical size About 16–18 inches and an inch thick, around 2.5 lbs. Big enough for Thanksgiving, heavy enough that it stays put when you chop.

“I throw away one blank in five, and I will be straight with you: it is a cutting board. Whether it becomes an heirloom is decided by your family, not by me.”

Aldo Salvetti · at the bench since 1986
Who this is for
The one who hosts Thanksgiving Cheese and charcuterie Bread, garlic, herbs, every day Mothers and grandmothers A gift that isn’t another candle Buy-it-for-life people
90 Ninety days, no questions

Cut on it, serve on it, put it in front of fourteen people at Thanksgiving. If it isn’t right — for any reason, including no reason — send it back for a full refund.

Product details
Size About 16–18 × 8–10 × 1 in (41–46 × 20–25 × 2.5 cm), natural outline — varies board to board
Weight Approx. 2.5 lbs (1.1 kg)
Material Solid olive wood ( Olea europaea ), one piece. No glued strips, no laminate, no veneer, no filler.
Hardness Janka 2,710 lbf — hard maple is approximately 1,450 lbf
Wood source California olive orchards, Tehama and Glenn County — trunk wood from orchard removals and pruning. No bearing tree is cut for this.
Drying Air-dried several months, kiln-dried to approx. 8%, then rested before carving
Finish Food-grade mineral oil, satin. No stain, no lacquer, no sealant. Arrives oiled.
Grain Flame, Burl, Honey or Storm — decided by the tree, not selectable
Care Hand wash, dry upright. Never dishwasher, never soaked. Re-oil monthly the first year.
Cut and carved by Aldo Salvetti, Corning, Tehama County, California — at the bench since 1986
Shipping Ships domestically from California. No customs, no duties.
Aldo Salvetti Corning, California
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What Aldo's customers are saying

Heavier than it looks in the pictures, and I mean that as a compliment. You set it down and it stays exactly where you put it. My old acacia board used to travel four inches every time I chopped an onion, and I was forever pushing it back with my hip. I have used this one nearly every day since July and there is not a mark on it worth mentioning.

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Elaine M. – Springfield, Missouri

Bought this for my daughter-in-law who hosts everything now that I have stopped. It arrived already oiled and in a box, so I did not have to do a thing to it, which is not how the last handmade thing I ordered showed up. She put cheese and grapes on it the same evening. Worth it just for her face when she got the paper off.

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Gary T. – Columbus, Ohio

I hesitated for two days over the measurements because sixteen inches did not sound like much, and I have been burned before by things that looked bigger in the photo. It is bigger than my largest baking sheet and heavier than I pictured — it does not slide when I am cutting, which is half the point. Glad I did not talk myself out of it.

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Monica C. – Portland, Oregon

Ordered this mostly because I was tired of the plastic one and figured a wooden board is a wooden board. It is not. There is a dark streak that runs diagonally across the whole thing and doubles back on itself, and every person who has been in my kitchen since has picked it up. I keep it on the counter now, which I have never done with a cutting board in my life.

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Rosa V. – Billings, Montana

My last board was one of those four-strip sets from a warehouse club, thirty dollars for three. Five months and it came apart right down the middle glue line, and when it did you could see they had filled a crack with putty before it ever left the factory. I flipped this one over before I even washed it. There is nothing on the back but more wood.

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Robert Pruitt, Lancaster, PA

Heavier than it looks in the pictures, and I mean that as a compliment. You set it down and it stays exactly where you put it. My old acacia board used to travel four inches every time I chopped an onion, and I was forever pushing it back with my hip. I have used this one nearly every day since July and there is not a mark on it worth mentioning.

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Elaine M. – Springfield, Missouri

Bought this for my daughter-in-law who hosts everything now that I have stopped. It arrived already oiled and in a box, so I did not have to do a thing to it, which is not how the last handmade thing I ordered showed up. She put cheese and grapes on it the same evening. Worth it just for her face when she got the paper off.

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Gary T. – Columbus, Ohio

I hesitated for two days over the measurements because sixteen inches did not sound like much, and I have been burned before by things that looked bigger in the photo. It is bigger than my largest baking sheet and heavier than I pictured — it does not slide when I am cutting, which is half the point. Glad I did not talk myself out of it.

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Monica C. – Portland, Oregon

Ordered this mostly because I was tired of the plastic one and figured a wooden board is a wooden board. It is not. There is a dark streak that runs diagonally across the whole thing and doubles back on itself, and every person who has been in my kitchen since has picked it up. I keep it on the counter now, which I have never done with a cutting board in my life.

Verified

Rosa V. – Billings, Montana

My last board was one of those four-strip sets from a warehouse club, thirty dollars for three. Five months and it came apart right down the middle glue line, and when it did you could see they had filled a crack with putty before it ever left the factory. I flipped this one over before I even washed it. There is nothing on the back but more wood.

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Robert Pruitt, Lancaster, PA

Heavier than it looks in the pictures, and I mean that as a compliment. You set it down and it stays exactly where you put it. My old acacia board used to travel four inches every time I chopped an onion, and I was forever pushing it back with my hip. I have used this one nearly every day since July and there is not a mark on it worth mentioning.

Verified

Elaine M. – Springfield, Missouri

Bought this for my daughter-in-law who hosts everything now that I have stopped. It arrived already oiled and in a box, so I did not have to do a thing to it, which is not how the last handmade thing I ordered showed up. She put cheese and grapes on it the same evening. Worth it just for her face when she got the paper off.

Verified

Gary T. – Columbus, Ohio

I hesitated for two days over the measurements because sixteen inches did not sound like much, and I have been burned before by things that looked bigger in the photo. It is bigger than my largest baking sheet and heavier than I pictured — it does not slide when I am cutting, which is half the point. Glad I did not talk myself out of it.

Verified

Monica C. – Portland, Oregon

Ordered this mostly because I was tired of the plastic one and figured a wooden board is a wooden board. It is not. There is a dark streak that runs diagonally across the whole thing and doubles back on itself, and every person who has been in my kitchen since has picked it up. I keep it on the counter now, which I have never done with a cutting board in my life.

Verified

Rosa V. – Billings, Montana

My last board was one of those four-strip sets from a warehouse club, thirty dollars for three. Five months and it came apart right down the middle glue line, and when it did you could see they had filled a crack with putty before it ever left the factory. I flipped this one over before I even washed it. There is nothing on the back but more wood.

Verified

Robert Pruitt, Lancaster, PA

Heavier than it looks in the pictures, and I mean that as a compliment. You set it down and it stays exactly where you put it. My old acacia board used to travel four inches every time I chopped an onion, and I was forever pushing it back with my hip. I have used this one nearly every day since July and there is not a mark on it worth mentioning.

Verified

Elaine M. – Springfield, Missouri

Bought this for my daughter-in-law who hosts everything now that I have stopped. It arrived already oiled and in a box, so I did not have to do a thing to it, which is not how the last handmade thing I ordered showed up. She put cheese and grapes on it the same evening. Worth it just for her face when she got the paper off.

Verified

Gary T. – Columbus, Ohio

I hesitated for two days over the measurements because sixteen inches did not sound like much, and I have been burned before by things that looked bigger in the photo. It is bigger than my largest baking sheet and heavier than I pictured — it does not slide when I am cutting, which is half the point. Glad I did not talk myself out of it.

Verified

Monica C. – Portland, Oregon

Ordered this mostly because I was tired of the plastic one and figured a wooden board is a wooden board. It is not. There is a dark streak that runs diagonally across the whole thing and doubles back on itself, and every person who has been in my kitchen since has picked it up. I keep it on the counter now, which I have never done with a cutting board in my life.

Verified

Rosa V. – Billings, Montana

My last board was one of those four-strip sets from a warehouse club, thirty dollars for three. Five months and it came apart right down the middle glue line, and when it did you could see they had filled a crack with putty before it ever left the factory. I flipped this one over before I even washed it. There is nothing on the back but more wood.

Verified

Robert Pruitt, Lancaster, PA

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