From a piece of rough sawn hickory, I machined it, resawed it, and from one of the pieces made 36 crosses 2 5/16" high, 9/32" thick. The small wavey grain is intriguing to me. When sanded down the unfinished blonde wood shows some grain, but stain brings it out well. Half of them I stained with red mahogany, and the others with "old hickory".
On my 78th birthday, as we celebrated Independence Day, I finished them with a 2nd coat of polyurethane. Handsome.
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| mahogany stained and hickory stained with poly coat |
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| cutting dados |
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