# How can I hang my very heavy cutting board? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 12, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-hang-my-very-heavy-cutting-board/920387 "2020-09-12T02:19:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-hang-my-very-heavy-cutting-board/920387/1 "2020-09-12T02:19:41Z")
I recently purchased a large heavy teak cutting board. It’s really beautiful so I’d like to display it in some manner, preferably on a wall in the kitchen. Its dimensions are 18 x 25 x 2 and weighs about 13 pounds. I bought a wooden ledge from Amazon but the lip on it doesn’t seem very sturdy and I don’t think it will support it. The wall I’d like to put it on has 2 studs 16” apart that I assume I’ll need to drill into. That’s not a problem. It just needs to be stable so that if it gets bumped, it won’t fall. Because if it lands on any body part, it’s going to do a lot of damage. Suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-hang-my-very-heavy-cutting-board/920387/2 "2020-09-12T02:26:53Z")
Some [heavy-duty stand](https://www.google.com/search?q=plate+stand&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwil_IOTyOLrAhXohXIEHRz7BrMQ_AUoAnoECBAQBA&biw=1525&bih=856) (maybe 2) like you’d place a platter on? Or maybe hooks that you can screw into the underside of the cabinets. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-hang-my-very-heavy-cutting-board/920387/3 "2020-09-12T02:55:22Z")
You don’t want anything that heavy to be able to fall off the wall. Whatever it rests on there needs to be a restraining strap or bar holding it in place so it can’t be knocked off. If you don’t do that it is guaranteed to fall some day, either on your own foot, if you’re lucky, or on the foot of some litigious person. That is a bone breaking weight if it falls. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-hang-my-very-heavy-cutting-board/920387/4 "2020-09-12T02:55:36Z")
Is it the kind that has little feet on the bottom, or is it flat on both sides? If it’s the kind that had the little feet maybe something similar to a french cleat? ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-hang-my-very-heavy-cutting-board/920387/5 "2020-09-12T03:05:59Z")
It’s flat inasmuch as there are no feet. Both sides are usable but one has a juice trough on it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-hang-my-very-heavy-cutting-board/920387/6 "2020-09-12T04:42:04Z")
Leave it flat on the counter with a knife stuck in it. Art! ---
**Author:** ![GMANCANADA](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gmancanada/32/2837_2.png) [@GMANCANADA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GMANCANADA)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-hang-my-very-heavy-cutting-board/920387/7 "2020-09-12T14:09:19Z")
We have a similar heavy teak cutting board, my solution was a sturdy decorative hook on the wall and an eye bolt screwed directly into the cutting board. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-hang-my-very-heavy-cutting-board/920387/8 "2020-09-12T14:24:08Z")
Even just a shelf, anchored to the studs with lag bolts/screws, and ‘deep’ enough to have an upward lip at the front. That would allow you to lean the top of the cutting board into the wall and angle the bottom of the board into the lip of the shelf. You could counterbore the holes for the lag bolts/screws and then get plugs to hide the screw heads. The whole attachment would be invisible. Unless you live in a seismic area … I’d think that should hold. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-hang-my-very-heavy-cutting-board/920387/9 "2020-09-12T14:28:08Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Even just a shelf, anchored to the studs with lag bolts/screws, and ‘deep’ enough to have an upward lip at the front. That would allow you to lean the top of the cutting board into the wall and angle the bottom of the board into the lip of the shelf. Yeah, I was a touch alarmist there, but I hope the OP is keeping in mind how heavy that thing is. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-hang-my-very-heavy-cutting-board/920387/10 "2020-09-12T14:34:38Z")
Nah. I’m on the same page as you. I was just thinking about how I might secure it. Even if the board never moved of its own volition, we should bear in mind its potential lethality under rare circumstances: [![](https://cdn3.volusion.com/stlse.vzhek/v/vspfiles/photos/BCGFOJ-2.jpg?v-cache=1567748470) ](https://cdn3.volusion.com/stlse.vzhek/v/vspfiles/photos/BCGFOJ-2.jpg?v-cache=1567748470)