Abstract: A wood end grain slab comprises a plurality of wooden blocks of varying length adhered side-by-side with adjacent pairs of the blocks having an upper surface with mirrored end grain patterns. The slab may be formed by ripping a board lengthwise into a plurality of ordered parallel cut strips having lengthwise edges, gluing the parallel cut strips, in order, together along the lengthwise edges to form a glued board, ripping the glued board at an angle oblique to the lengthwise edges to form oblique cut strips, forming blocks having sides exposing end grain from the oblique cut strips, rotating adjacent blocks to mirror the end grain of the adjacent blocks and gluing the blocks.