Thanks, when I mix exotics and more common woods I tend to make the more common wood the dominant species, for this very reason. This overall design language was been at the heart of my personal dice trays(scroll down to see the tray) and hero vaults, as well.
A nice side effect of this particular design is that the longest piece of maple is still a really modest size, only about 6.5”. Lots of scroll saw woods come in at about 12” length, so all four sides of maple were easy to cut from a single smallish board.