Kou Cutting BoardsOctober 2025 Kou My wife and I had been discussing getting rid of our plastic cutting boards to reduce the chance of introducing even more microplastics than already exist in the food chain into our diet via our own kitchen. Plus, wood cutting boards can have antibacterial properties depending on the wood, and they've been in healthy kitchens for centuries. Like any man with a workshop, I have several offcuts of wood in my house. I chose kou (Cordia

I loved the idea of a really light felt depicting the lace structure of the capillaries of a leaf

I thought Henry Moore might be a cartoon I wasn't familiar with or maybe a friend of my Dad's

I knew that it wasn't going to be the best example of pottery in our house

and it is sometimes a one-or-the-other scenario

Throughout the process of making various other jewelry projects

They are combined here with the letters of the חי slightly exceeding the borders of the star

November 2013

and the seven-branched menorah from the Temple in Jerusalem

elder for autumn and mistletoe for winter

Photo of Joshua Edelstein with hammer by Gail Jones Sundell

so I made a series of stars to go along with it

so I did very little polishing of the piece