Chopping Board market research

My material choice for the chopping board is maple. This hard wood is light in colour and naturally very durable. The relatively straight grain means it is less susceptible to warping. The grin will also flow nicely with the spun bowls.

I have decided to reconsider the moving section of the chopping board after speaking with some of the technicians and speaking to some parents about the concept. I think I need to take a step back as it would need to be a relatively complex piece of unnecessary engineering to complete the element that moves. I need to consider weather this would be worth the safety, corrosion and hygiene risks.

As an alternative, Although sinks vary massively in length, due to a standard kitchen work top dimension, sinks don't vary massively vary in width. There for it was suggest to me that I design my chopping board to sit over the sink in that direction. I have accumulated many sink measurements from several suppliers in order to make my board fit as many sinks as possible. This change of design then takes me back to considering the non slip materials that I was experimenting with at the beginning of my research and it will be the extensions of the board that are wider than sink and sitting on the work top that will be stabilising the product.

Over the weekend I completed some market research in B and Q, Home Base, and Srewfix.

I measured a variety of different sinks to come up with a design that will be suitable to function over most standard sinks. The smallest and largest the sinks out of the 15 sinks I measures only varied in width by 95mm and the average length was 380mm. I will be using these dimensions to produce a prototype that I can test before constructing a board out of hard wood.