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Planar butt jointing techniques

THERE ARE PICTURES DOWN BELOW! Don’t run away because of all the dumb text I’ve recently completed a study of various inlay-esque plane jointing techniques, where two pieces of wood butt up against each other edge-to-edge in the same plane. As with my finger joint roundup, I had a few rules I set up at first to keep the scope manageable. No more than two species of wood involved. No “islands”. All wood needed to be firmly attached to its “side” of the joint Light, constant kerf cor…

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Honeycomb tray

Hello, I am the keeper of the comb. You may look but not touch. [IMG_0844] Figured maple, Figured Walnut, Padauk, Cowhide My exploration of trays is apparently not complete yet. This time, instead of an abstract geometric theme of spirals I decided to ground the design in more natural forms, specifically honeycomb. I don’t have a lot of process details to share that I haven’t already in my other tray posts, you can search the forum for them if you want to dig deeper into how I do this sort…