June 17, 20223 yr 7 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said: Excellent grain wrapping match!! Thank you, gents! Nothing I started out to do on purpose, Doc, just took three slices off the end before reducing the remainder to slats. For the heck of it, to listen to the saw. But later realized that with three crosscuts, I can roughly bookmatch four sides of a similar tray. A mistake in glueing - clamped in all directions EXCEPT bottom up into the rabbets of the end components - led to a little filler made with sifted sawdust & Titebond. No worries. It's done, in the cabinet. The embedded discoloration I thought from from steel wool? I was almost right. It was a disintegrated nail, absorbed into the wood. Scraping that box is an interesting exercise. But it does scrape. Sandpaper smooths but you lose the depth and pop of the grain. The dull finish of shredded wood fibers? The scraper cuts, and the grain's beauty is restored in color and depth. I went 80-thru-220 then scraped.
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