[wheresmycraisin]

Only very large commercial cutting board makers would be able to accommodate custom design orders from a tool like this. It would have to be extremely constrained in terms of the tools available to the ship (like the maximum capacity of sanders), availability of space and clamps, and most importantly availability of appropriate wood.

[justinclift]

Or people with a reasonable CNC machine (even prosumer grade), that takes the time to make some setup templates.

[dymk]

I wish that were the case, but there's not much that can be automated with a CNC in the production of these board patterns (I've tried, a lot). The parts that can be aren't related to actually making the pattern itself: flattening, handhold routing, and the juice groove.

There are some generic-ish jigs that a CNC and 3D printer help with, but those don't tend to change with board pattern.

Economies of scale would be realized by making lots of the same board, but then you're not doing custom one-offs.

[wheresmycraisin]

CNC would not make much easier unless you were also doing inlays. For straight repeated cuts a table saw would be 100x faster.

[justinclift]

Thinking about it a bit more, yeah I reckon you're probably right. :)