Bespoke Butchers Blocks For Sale

Antique Butcher Blocks For Kitchens

Our selection of traditional butchers chopping blocks are ideal to use as tables or free standing kitchen islands. Whether you’re looking for bespoke butcher block tables or butcher block tops for an island, our extensive range will be sure to fit in with the décor and style of your own home. Fully refurbished, polished and ready for use, select the bespoke butchers block for you online with UKAA.

Perhaps you’re still looking for the perfect butchers table? When you find the ideal one for your kitchen, discover UKAA’s excellent worldwide shipping service for any of our bespoke butcher blocks. For any more information on custom butchers blocks, please contact our team today, or carry on browsing through our full bespoke furniture range.

Antique Bespoke Butchers Blocks

Here at UKAA, we stock a large range of original and bespoke butchers blocks.

Constructed from maple and turning up the wood grain on end gives the butchers block its original and unique look. Hard maple is the best material to use because of its very tight grain. An iron bar goes through the block from end to end, which can be turned to re-tighten the maple blocks. the way in which the blocks are cleaned with hot water and a scrubbing brush means the blocks will expand and contract.

The History Of Antique Butcher Blocks

If you’re thinking of adding an antique butcher block to your home, add further value by understanding its history. A butcher would have used the block for the cutting and preparation of the meat. You can identify a good quality old block due to the wavy appearance. This happens as a result of years of cleaning by the butcher, he would have scrubbed the block each night with a metal scrubbing brush.

An early Victorian butchers block would have sat on a sturdy pine base with large drawers and quality iron handles.

The blocks come in various sizes, but the most popular sizes would have been between 4ft and 6ft long and were normally no wider than 3ft.

A later butcher’s block would have had a stainless-steel base but the actual construction of the butchers blocks have not changed over the years.

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Cleaning Your Reclaimed Butchers Block

Wooden butcher blocks are unique additions to your kitchen, providing a sturdy work surface with the warmth and natural beauty of wood. However, to protect both the wood and your health, it’s important to keep butcher blocks sanitized and sealed.

If you take the time to clean and oil your butchers block about once a month, you can be assured it will last a lifetime. Here’s what you need to know to properly maintain your butcher block:

(This project takes a total of about half an hour, but it’s broken up due to drying time.)

Materials Needed:

Natural soap or dish soap
Scrubbing sponge
Scrubbing brush
White vinegar
Lemon juice
Table salt
Mineral oil or other sealing oil
Clean cloth or paper towels
Butcher Block Oils

Once you’ve cleaned your bespoke butchers block, you’ll need to seal it to. Here’s what you’ll need:

Food Grade Mineral Oil: This is the top choice for butcher blocks, and it’s the primary ingredient in commercial sealing products. Look for food grade mineral oil in your local pharmacy – it’s also sold as a laxative – and it’ll be much cheaper in the pharmacy than in the hardware store. Mineral oil will give your butcher block a light honey colour.
Raw Linseed Oil: A form of flax oil. Use raw linseed oil, rather than boiled, since boiled oil can contain metallic dryers that aren’t considered food-safe.
Walnut Oil* or Almond Oil*: These oils can be found at most gourmet grocery stores.

Reclaimed Butchers Blocks In The Home

We source a lot of original butchers block tops that we can then use for a central island. These can be made with bespoke base units, tailored to your exact needs. What’s more, we can paint the base unit in a colour of your choice, and you can design the base, so it fits in with the rest of your kitchen. We can paint the unit in any make of paint, for example, Farrow & Ball or Little Greene - to match your kitchen units or to compliment them.

Here at UKAA, we have years of experience in making bespoke base units – some with drawers and some with shelves so that you can use a rustic basket to store your vegetables or bread. We can mix and match for you so you could have drawers and shelves. The drawers can be accessed from both sides, making it perfect for a central island. Or if you’d prefer, we can make the unit any height so that it can be used as a breakfast bar – the choice is yours.