Manufacture of wooden kitchen shredders in Canada

Located on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Larch Wood Canada manufactures hand-crafted kitchen kitchen choppers from larch wood. In addition to gorgeous patterns of color and design, Larch Wood specializes in grinders as kitchen tools made from larch planks because they are durable and feature a food grind surface with a so-called "self-replenishing" characteristic.

Don Beamish, general manager of Larch Wood Canada, which designed and launched these kitchen choppers in 2005, tells us in a video interview at the end of this article about the steps involved in making his famous kitchen choppers.

First, the larch logs are cut on the Wood-Mizer LT40 sawmill. The timber is then carefully stacked and placed in a kiln. The dried timber reaches the horizontal saw, where it is cut into different lengths. From the horizontal saw it goes to the planing machine, where it is finished on all four sides. The next step is the circular saw, which cuts the wood to the desired dimensions for the final product. But these may not be quite so precise, so the product passes in the final stage through the profiling machine, which makes the dimensions very accurate.

Then the products go into the press for the first gluing. "The workers who do this trace the ends of each piece of wood to determine the pattern that will be on the surface of the final chipper. They create gorgeous layouts by mixing different shades and patterns," Don Beamish tells us.

Once the gluing is completed, the pieces of wood are sent to the planing machine which removes excess glue and makes the surface perfectly clean. From there, the product goes to the circular saw for cross-cutting into two-inch pieces. These pieces are passed through a secondary cut to get the final surface of the kitchen shredders. They will go through thickness sanders, finish sanders and edge rounding. In the last step, the product is coated with three coats (two coats of mineral oil and one coat of wax), and then they are packaged for shipment to customers.

"When you buy a shredder from us, you expect to receive a product that you enjoy using, that becomes a centerpiece in your kitchen, and that you can even pass on to your children, i.e. that it is durable," explains Don Beamish, General Manager of Larch Wood Canada.

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