I wanted to try my new aluminum faceplate. I went to HD and found a piece of pine that had some evidence of Pine kill beetle. I've used it before and like the colors it produces. I made it the size of hole to hold/store  knitting/crochet needles.  I sprayed a clear finish. You can see the new faceplate still on the piece. I used a forstner drills to the required depth. I'll glue  some felt on the bottom and the bottom of the hole. It's 5 inches high. I put a block of the glued up pine next to it. 

 The Easy Wood face plate works SO MUCH better........sure glad I got it.

Boy that does have some gorgeous grain! I really love my Easy Wood Tools face plate

NICE!!!

Nice grain on that piece . Looks like the grain converges to a V.

That's sure some pretty wood. Makes a really nice looking container. 

Looks great.

Looks good.  Enough going on in the beetle kill pine that the glue lines disappeared.