Steve Busey
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I had a couple Bethelehem Olive Wood blanks in the bottom of my blank box, never used because they only had nice grain on about half the blank.
So rather than pitch them, I decided to have them join forces!
Starting with some half-bland blanks:
Cleaned the edges and glued in some walnut veneer for some "camoflage" of the seam:
More cleanup - all the good grain character is now in the middle of the combined blank:
Cut off the plain wings to square the blank:
And treat it like any other - "double or nothing" - sweet success!
So rather than pitch them, I decided to have them join forces!
Starting with some half-bland blanks:
Cleaned the edges and glued in some walnut veneer for some "camoflage" of the seam:
More cleanup - all the good grain character is now in the middle of the combined blank:
Cut off the plain wings to square the blank:
And treat it like any other - "double or nothing" - sweet success!
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