Apple - a special piece of wood?

 Apple is a light colored hardwood with some interesting grain.  I made 30 3" tall crosses 1/2" wide and 3/8" thick.  I used three different stains for unique results.

red mahogany, Ipswich pine, dark mahogany

The piece of apple may have been what I used to make my first apple crosses in 2010.

finished crosses

Mesquite - a rough board from Texas

 While visiting Comfort, TX we stopped at a sawmill and I picked out a 2" thick handsome piece of mesquite, gray and rough sawn.  When machined in early August, the beautiful pink of this hard wood looked so fine.

I cut some half inch wide strips and made three nice wall crosses about 6" tall.

stained with golden oak, a rich look

From a 7/16" thick piece, I made 36 crosses 7/16"x7/16"x2 13/16 tall.

And from another 7/16" thick piece came 6 beautiful wall crosses 5 1/2" tall and a small 1 3/4" cross.

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