Just a Little Project

[DWyatt]

Made a little safe out of the largest post office box door I have. Approximate size is 12" x 12" x 7". The wood is QS White Oak that dad and I sawed last year. I painted the background of the door a semi-gloss black, I love the contrast  The one is going to the guy who owns the electrical company where I got all the electrical materials when building my house. Hoping to trade for the last 3 lights I need to finish up the shop 8) Enjoy.



 



 



 

[WDH]

Very nice.

[samandothers]

yes very nice job!  What is the furrow around the middle.

[DWyatt]

yes very nice job!  What is the furrow around the middle.

The dark strip in the wood? The board I glued up for the project had a small dark area on the edge and rather than cutting it off, I chose to emphasize it by making the wood "waterfall" around the bank. 

[samandothers]

Yup that is it!  My bad, I did not look close enough.  :
I thought it was a coved area.

[AZ_builder]

Are those saw marks on the back side? Did you leave them on purpose? I like the look!

[Texas Ranger]

Grain

[Don P]

You're seeing the rays in quartersawn lumber. This is some red oak I was scanning and blowing up this morning to count rings (130 in 4"!). The rays, running radially like the spokes on a wheel, are very big and obvious in oaks, more so in white oak. I've lined off in red about the orientation of the quartersawn board showing how it clips across a ray giving that view you were commenting on.




Rays are the horizontal transportation network in a tree. Notice as you look towards the bark, left side of the pic, as the tree needs another horizontal "road" in the expanding diameter of the tree it throws in a new ray.

[AZ_builder]

Thanks for the explanation. I've never dealt with oak before.

[DWyatt]

The other replies are correct, the wood used is quarter sawn white oak. You are seeing the ray flecks in the back. I specifically picked wood with both the most ray fleck and unique grain, as you can see the stripe across the top and the "stripes" of color across the back.