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Enzo's Olive Cutting Board

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Enzo's Olive Cutting Board

Enzo's Olive Cutting Board

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Made by hand by Enzo Togneri · Blandford Forum, Dorset

One slab of Tuscan olive wood, pulled from the bonfire

Enzo Togneri is 66 and has worked olive wood for thirty-six years. His father Giovanni came from a hill village above Lucca, arrived in Dorset as a prisoner of war and never went home. When the frost of January 1985 killed his uncle’s grove, the dead trunks were cut and stacked to burn. Enzo drove his work van down from Dorset and filled it. The wood needed five years in the barn before it could be cut. The first board went to his mother in Poole. It is still the only thing he makes — and this batch will be his last.

2,710 Janka hardness — beech is ~1,300
1 in 5 Blanks thrown out before packing
36 Years at one bench in Dorset
Zero Healthy trees ever felled for it

"A good board should see out the person who bought it. When one doesn't, it's nearly always because it was never one piece of wood in the first place."

Enzo Togneri · Blandford Forum, Dorset
The final batch

Thirty-six years at the bench. This is the last of it.

Enzo still loves the moment a grey, split trunk goes under the plane for the first time and the grain comes up gold and black underneath. Turning wood that was meant for a bonfire into something a family uses every day has been his life’s work — and his passion.

But olive is one of the hardest woods there is, and every board means hours of gripping, pushing and scraping. At 66, his hands have started to say no. The joints ache by mid-morning, gripping the scraper hurts more each month, and a full day at the bench now costs him the next one. There is no apprentice and nobody to take the workshop on.

So this batch is his last. When these boards are gone, there will be no more.

What arrives
I The Chopping Board A single slab with no seam. Natural live edge, carved handle hole, both faces worked and finished.
II Already Oiled Oiled with food-grade mineral oil at the bench. Use it the day it arrives, or wrap it as a present.
III Measurement Card The measured size and weight of your own board. Not a range, not a guess.
IV Ninety Days If it isn’t right for you, send it back and get every penny refunded.
Why it is nothing like a shop-bought chopping board Six differences — and you can check every one of them yourself.
01 A single piece, no joins Most wooden boards on the high street are three or four strips glued together and sanded flat. Turn this one over: the grain carries on from front to back without a break. No glue, so nothing to come apart.
02 Janka 2,710 Nearly twice as dense as the beech used for most British boards. The harder the surface, the shallower the knife marks — so you don’t end up with grooves that trap food and bacteria.
03 Dried for months, never rushed Freshly cut olive wood is more than half water. Enzo leaves his blanks in a Dorset barn for months, finishes them in the kiln, then lets them rest again. Rush that and the board cracks a few weeks after it reaches you.
04 Made in Dorset, not sent from a warehouse Worked, oiled and packed in Blandford Forum. Sent within the UK, so no customs charges and no import duty at the door. You know who made it, and where.
05 Ready the day it arrives Plenty of handmade boards turn up dry and rough to the touch. Yours is oiled, wiped and wrapped before it leaves the workshop.
06 Sized for a real kitchen Roughly 40–46 cm long, 2.5 cm thick and about 1.1 kg. Room for a Sunday joint or a full cheese board, and heavy enough not to slide about when you chop.

"For thirty-six years I drove down to Lucca every spring and came back with a van full of olive trunks. This year I didn't go. I still love the work — it's the hands that have had enough."

Enzo Togneri · at the bench since 1990
Who this is for
Whoever does Christmas dinner Cheese boards and antipasti Everyday chopping Mums and grans A present that isn’t another candle People who buy once
90 Ninety days to make up your mind

Chop on it every day. Put it out on Christmas Day. Let the whole family have a go. If it isn’t right — for whatever reason, or none — send it back for a full refund.

Product details
Size Approx. 40–46 × 20–25 × 2.5 cm (16–18 × 8–10 × 1 in), natural outline — varies board to board
Weight Approx. 1.1 kg (2.5 lbs)
Material Solid olive wood (Olea europaea), one piece. No glued strips, no laminate, no veneer, no filler.
Hardness Janka 2,710 lbf — beech (common in UK boards) is approximately 1,300 lbf
Wood source Old olive groves in the hills above Lucca, Tuscany, Italy — trunk wood from frost damage, grove renewals and clearances. No bearing tree is cut for this.
Drying Air-dried in a Dorset barn, kiln-dried to approx. 8%, then rested before working
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.
Made by Enzo Togneri, Blandford Forum, Dorset — at the bench since 1990
Availability Final batch. Enzo is retiring — once these boards are sold, there is no restock.
Shipping Ships from Dorset by Royal Mail Tracked, free UK delivery. No customs, no import duty.
Enzo Togneri Blandford Forum, Dorset
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What Enzo'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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Pauline M. – Exeter, Devon

Bought this for my daughter-in-law, who does all the hosting 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 turned 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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Martin T. – Shrewsbury, Shropshire

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

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Alison C. – Chester, Cheshire

Ordered this mostly because I was fed up with 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 everyone who has been in my kitchen since has picked it up. I keep it out on the worktop now, which I have never done with a chopping board in my life.

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Margaret V. – Lincoln, Lincolnshire

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

Pauline M. – Exeter, Devon

Bought this for my daughter-in-law, who does all the hosting 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 turned up. She put cheese and grapes on it the same evening. Worth it just for her face when she got the paper off.

Verified

Martin T. – Shrewsbury, Shropshire

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

Verified

Alison C. – Chester, Cheshire

Ordered this mostly because I was fed up with 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 everyone who has been in my kitchen since has picked it up. I keep it out on the worktop now, which I have never done with a chopping board in my life.

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Margaret V. – Lincoln, Lincolnshire

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

Pauline M. – Exeter, Devon

Bought this for my daughter-in-law, who does all the hosting 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 turned up. She put cheese and grapes on it the same evening. Worth it just for her face when she got the paper off.

Verified

Martin T. – Shrewsbury, Shropshire

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

Verified

Alison C. – Chester, Cheshire

Ordered this mostly because I was fed up with 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 everyone who has been in my kitchen since has picked it up. I keep it out on the worktop now, which I have never done with a chopping board in my life.

Verified

Margaret V. – Lincoln, Lincolnshire

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

Pauline M. – Exeter, Devon

Bought this for my daughter-in-law, who does all the hosting 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 turned up. She put cheese and grapes on it the same evening. Worth it just for her face when she got the paper off.

Verified

Martin T. – Shrewsbury, Shropshire

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

Verified

Alison C. – Chester, Cheshire

Ordered this mostly because I was fed up with 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 everyone who has been in my kitchen since has picked it up. I keep it out on the worktop now, which I have never done with a chopping board in my life.

Verified

Margaret V. – Lincoln, Lincolnshire

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