Wildflowers - 03 and a wood answer

Every spring, it amazes me to see weeds growing into blankets of color in ditches on the side of the roads. Flowers are everywhere in central Texas. Yes, the flowers are also beyond central Texas but the abundance seems different. This first photo is not very good since I really don't define a subject but I like the mix of colors.

In the second photo, you see a partial answer to the wood questions posed a few days ago. The wood slabs are roughly 12.5" wide by 22" long by 7/8" thick. You see I used 4 species of wood. Jatoba, Maple, Parota, and Walnut. A total of 10 sticks were glued together in each slab. This is the first time I've used Parota. A local wood shop specializing in huge conference room sized epoxy slab tables had some off-cuts for sale and I picked up this new wood. It was 10" wide by 2" thick and 22" long. A small split in the wood was filled with epoxy. That part of the wood was not pretty. The Parota slab had sapwood providing the light color blending into the rich golds and browns of its center. I resawed the slab into 1" thick pieces and then cut it up for incorporation into these boards paying close attention to the two center pieces matching up grain as close as possible to minimize visibility of the joint.. None of these woods are  from endangered trees.

The final project to be shared in a few days. Can your imagination predict the product? The end product will look different than what you see in this view and will involve one more set of cuts and glue-up.

Thanks,

Doug White

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