A couple of small projects came out of a recent cleanup of my ever expanding scrap wood pile.
The first one is a “continuous grain” box about 3 1/2” x 4 1/2” x 1 1/2” that I made from a spare glue up of some scraps from a couple of years ago. The woods were maple, sapele, and western red cedar. I had a gift that I was sending to a friend and I decided to jazz it up by making a box for it. I barely had enough material but I managed it. The cool part was I actually got the grain to wrap in all directions. The miters were not perfect and the glue up was a little off so it is somewhat asymmetrical but that just gives it a bit of an organic feel. I was able to hide most of my errors.
The second one was made from long thin cutoffs that I just couldn’t bring myself to discard, I mean they’re 8’ long after all. I decided to rip them all to 3/4” wide and then cut them into 24” lengths and glue them up into a 5 3/8” x 24” panel. After flattening and thickness planing the resulting panel on the jointer/planer it measured 5/8” thick. I immediately saw a charcuterie board and I made a paper template and marked it up and cut it on the band saw and put the hanging hole in the end with a 1 3/8” forstner bit. I rounded over all the edges with 1/4” round over bit and then sanded it from 120 grit to 220 grit and after carefully cleaning it applied mineral oil to it.
That’s it just a couple of one’ish day builds…