In early November 2020, my wife an I started to chat about Christmas gift plans for friends and family. Well… she started talking about it – I was mostly listening.

At one point she suggested that I make cutting boards as gifts. I thought that was a decent idea, so I agreed. Then we counted how many boards we would need to make and landed on almost 20 boards I would need to make inside of 6 weeks.

So Santa’s Elf (me) got busy and made a lot of noise and even more saw dust over the next several weeks,