Recognizing that every meat butcher across the country had a similar need for a sturdy butchers table on which to chop and carve meat, Conrad’s son, John Boos, began peddling the family’s chop-block tables to butchers’ shops, and the butcher’s block was born. Chopping Blocks Then Migrated to the Masses Blacksmiths marveled at how well these supported slabs - like the tree stumps before them - absorbed the explosive impact of hammer against anvil. Then, late in the century, Conrad Boos had the idea to mount thick slabs of tree trunks atop sturdy wooden legs and move these makeshift work tables inside smithies. In the 1800s they shaped fire-heated iron into horseshoes using anvils placed on tree stumps. The First Butchers' Blocks Were Used by Blacksmiths in the Nineteenth Centuryīlacksmiths needed a rugged and stable surface on which they could hammer, bend and cut wrought iron or steel into useful objects. ![]()
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