I am building two small boxes with maple tops and jacobs boxes. I need to make visible splines. Should I go with jatoba or some other wood for the slides?
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I am building two small boxes with maple tops and jacobs boxes. I need to make visible splines. Should I go with jatoba or some other wood for the slides?
Last edited by Mike Gottlieb; 08-21-2019 at 7:07 PM.
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Jatoba and maple look great together. In the picture you can see the grain difference between the two, If I were to build this again (A Sjoelbak board) I would reverse the two woods because it is easier to make maple slick than jatoba. Sapele looks good with maple too, and the grain is much tighter.
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Bird's eye maple and sapele
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On a small box, I'd stick to jatoba rather than introducing a third wood. Some people like a lot of variety, but I feel it gets "too busy" very fast.
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