Handcrafted in Mauritius
Hardwood Boards◆Hand-Finished◆Mauritius
Boards worthy of the table they land on.
Premium chopping and charcuterie boards, shaped from character-grade hardwoods, finished food-safe, and engraved to make them unmistakably yours.
What Mau-Byo Is
Most boards make you choose: a workhorse for the knife, or a showpiece for the platter. Mau-Byo refuses the choice. Every board is built dual-purpose — dense hardwood that shrugs off daily chopping, finished to a standard that carries a charcuterie spread straight to the table.
Each piece is shaped by hand in Mauritius, from selected hardwoods with the grain doing the talking. No two boards are the same, because no two trees are.
Most people looking at Mau-Byo would say: he makes chopping boards. That's not the point — those are simply where it starts. Mau-Byo makes objects that get kept. Objects that improve with age instead of becoming obsolete.
The hours are the product.
There is no factory behind Mau-Byo. No team, no production line — one maker, born in Mauritius, buying his timber and hardware on this island and building every piece from first cut to final oiling. When a board leaves the workshop, one person has touched every millimetre of it.
Made by one. Made of Mauritius.
Nothing is stained to hide it, nothing covered to disguise it. The grain is the design — imperfections become personality, and no two boards ever repeat, because no two trees do.
The grain should speak.
Mau-Byo doesn't chase volume. Every batch is small enough to inspect by hand — which usually means there are fewer boards in a given month than there are people who want one.
Ten exceptional, never a hundred ordinary.
A board is a decade of Tuesday dinners and Saturday tables. Buy it once, and the only decision left is what to put on it.
And the sale is where the relationship starts, not where it ends. The first refresh of any board is free. If it dulls, bring it back. If it breaks, it gets repaired — no questions asked. Nobody throws away an heirloom; its maker stands by every piece for as long as he's alive to stand by it.
Owned. Not replaced.
Once you've used one, an ordinary board just feels like waiting for a Mau-Byo.
What I Make
Everyday chopping boards, entertaining pieces, and the signature collections — presented the way they deserve to be seen.
Enter The AtelierTongs, utensils, planters, custom commissions — the growing family of pieces beyond the board.
EnterWhy Mau-Byo
Not assembled here. Not imported and finished. Every cut, every joint, every pass through sandpaper happens on this island, by one pair of hands. Local hardwoods where possible. Local hardware throughout. Made here means made here.
Names, dates, logos, coordinates. Precision laser engraving burns your mark into the wood permanently — no peel, no fade. It's why Mau-Byo boards get gifted instead of bought, and kept instead of replaced.
Grain direction, figure, colour — every board is a read of the tree it came from. The dimensions are consistent. Everything else is unique. What you receive exists once. No reorder, no duplicate, no second one just like it.
No stain, no dye, no attempt to make the wood look like something it isn't. What you see is what grew — figure, colour, character selected for, not hidden behind a finish. Honest material, honestly presented.
A small compact board gets the same care as a full end-grain showpiece. The price changes. The attention doesn't. Every piece — whatever tier, whatever species — leaves the bench finished to the same single standard: the one I'd keep for myself.
Every finish that touches the wood is food-grade — no varnish, no synthetic sealant, nothing that doesn't belong near what you eat. The same care that makes it safe makes it last. One board, properly maintained, will outlive the kitchen it lives in.
Hardwood gets better with use — richer grain, deeper character, a surface that matures with every meal. When it dulls, it gets refreshed. If it's damaged, it gets repaired. Not a purchase you repeat — one you keep.
Most boards choose a side — the chopping block or the platter. Mau-Byo refuses the choice. Every board is built dual-purpose — dense hardwood that shrugs off daily chopping, finished to a standard that carries a charcuterie spread straight to the table.
Every Mau-Byo board is backed by a lifetime manufacturer's warranty — built to last, and warrantied to match.
Start Your Build
Message me on WhatsApp with the size, species and engraving you have in mind — or just the occasion. I'll take it from there, with photos at every stage.
See boards in the wild on Instagram
Pickup & Delivery
Choose your nearest point — I'll be there myself, board in hand. No courier, no middleman, ever.
Weekdays from 6pm · Weekends all day
Can't make it to a pickup point? I deliver every board myself, door to door, island-wide. No courier. No middleman. The same hands that built your board bring it to you.
Share your address on WhatsApp — I'll give you a clear quote before anything moves.
Care Ritual
Warm water, mild soap. Never the dishwasher, never a long soak.
Stand it on edge so air reaches both faces evenly.
Food-grade mineral oil or board butter — at least once a month, weekly if the board sees heavy daily use.
If it ever dulls, a light hand-sand and fresh oil bring it back to day one.
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