The addition of a wooden worktop to your kitchen isn't just an attractive and reasonably priced option; it is also highly practical. Wooden worktops come in a variety of different styles. At the less expensive end of the current market, you will find worktops which are made up of relatively short, thin strips, blocks or staves of timber. Thereafter, since the price rises, you'll typically find that staves become wider, broad planks or full staves may be used and in some instances even single pieces of timber might be used to produce the entire worktop. Lean strip or stave worktops are produced by bonding together narrow staves or strips of timber and putting them under pressure to make a fix. Either taken out by hand or by machine, the strips of wood are finger jointed and glued to produce them secure. The finger joints used in this procedure are made by efficiently cutting what seems like"teeth" into and out of alternate staves of wood, creating a large surface a...