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Carve Wood Board
Saw marks, left in. The blade pass, the ridge between two passes, the slight wander of a hand-fed mill — on a 5 mm sheet that goes on a wall.
Carve Wood Board is the end grain of a stack of sawn timber, scaled up until the saw marks become the pattern. Both directions are cut, so the surface reads as a random stack rather than as a set of parallel ribs, and there is a shallow step where one board sits above the next.
The relief is 2–3 mm and it is entirely in one direction, so the wall changes through the day. Morning light across the ribs gives you a hard shadow line; overhead light flattens it almost completely. Look at the sample in the room before you commit to a large wall.
A sawmill, at wall scale
The fine parallel lines inside each block are the saw. The blocks themselves are the boards. Get the scale right and the wall reads as stacked timber; get it wrong and it reads as corduroy, which is why the catalogue shot is taken close.
Two exteriors
The kiosk shot is a beachside unit in the brown colour, wrapping a window reveal and a corner with no trim visible. The interior shot is a grey wall behind a stone sideboard, where the ribs are picked out by a narrow band of light and almost disappear above it.
Installed, carve wood board
Good for
- Shopfronts and kiosks, where the relief takes knocks without chipping
- Restaurant walls that want timber without a maintenance schedule
- Feature walls behind joinery, lit from one side
- Exteriors on a ventilated cavity, especially in a coastal scheme
Not for
- Ceilings with uplighting: the ribs go flat and the pattern is wasted
- Very large flat walls at 1160 mm sheet width, because of the joint count
- Anywhere the brief says “smooth to the touch”
Bending across the ribs
It bends across the ribs at about a 200 mm radius and along them at about 400. The kiosk corner in the photograph was done as two pieces rather than one fold, because a fold across a 5 mm relief closes the ribs on the inside of the curve.
Bent by hand, no heat
Eight colours
Eight, running from a near-black through charcoal, ochre, tan, clay and off-white, with two paler variants. The dark ones hide the rib shadow; the pale ones show it. On a wall that gets direct sun, the pale colours are the safer choice.
Specification
Everything below applies to the Carve Wood Board as supplied. Samples and datasheets come with the first quote.
| Sheet size | 1160 × 3000 mm |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 5 mm ± 0.5 mm |
| Weight | 6.5 kg/m² ± 0.5 |
| Substrate | Mineral powder, sand and fibreglass, pressed in a steel mould |
| Fire | EN 13501-1 A2-s1,d0, on a non-combustible substrate |
| Fixing | Polymer adhesive, or mechanical fixings on a ventilated frame |
| MOQ | Stocked colours ship from stock, no minimum |
| Lead time | 3–5 days for stock, 20–25 days for production |
Fitting it
Four steps, and the third one is the one that goes wrong.
Questions we get asked
How does this differ from Wood Grain Panel?
Wood Grain is a photographic-accurate oak board. This is sawn end grain, a much coarser and more architectural pattern, and the relief is deeper.
Is 5 mm harder to cut?
A little. Score and snap works, but a multi-tool or a fine-tooth blade gives a cleaner edge on the ribbed face. Cut from the back.
Will the ribs collect dust?
Yes, at the base of each rib. Run them vertically on a wall and the dust falls instead of settling.
Can it be used as a floor?
No. It is a wall and ceiling product at 5 mm, and a point load will crush the ribs.
What is the largest panel?
1160 × 3000. On a longer wall, keep the sheets the same way up and the joint lands inside a rib shadow, which hides it.
Sample of Carve Wood Board
A4 offcut, posted from Ningbo, free. Ask for the colour card too — it has all seventeen textures in the series.
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