Our Story — Mission, Kansas
Built from scratch in Kansas City.
No business plan. No investors on day one. Just a housewarming, a board that needed building, and a craftsman who couldn’t stop.
The road so far
From a garage to the kitchens of Kansas City.
2020
It started with a housewarming.
Emily wanted a charcuterie board for the new house. Tim figured he’d build it himself. It kind of backfired — the hobby became a company: solid hardwood boards, cut and finished one at a time, built to hand down.
2026
The shop goes pro.
A real facility in Mission, Kansas — CNC on the floor and Richlite, an 80-year-old paper composite nobody else in the Midwest fabricates, cut edge-to-edge. First production run out the door, platters headed to Q39.
Tonight
On the line every night.
Our boards work in the kitchens of Kansas City’s best — and we’re filming the story in our series, Made in the Middle. The city is the hero.
“First boards out of the new space. Richlite. Kansas City. This is what we’ve been building toward.”Tim Gauntt · Founder