I debated for years on what to use these slats for, I had a full milk crate of them. After pre-milling the slats to clean the surfaces I decided on coasters and a cheese board. The trim for the cheese board came from the door styles, and the trim for the coasters came from used ½” tapered x 4 1/2” baseboard. A foot note, the 10 ft piece of very old mahogany base board was stamped $3.70. LOL.
The biggest mistake was getting complacent on the production run when face sawing all the slats, I got careless and damaged my Gripper. Other than this, the project was not difficult but took lots of time, patience and glue-ups. I now have instructions to mill the rest and build more.
Here is the story board in pictures, Chapter 1 of 2, milling and glue-up