When the timber is this beautiful, wasting the off-cuts would be a tragedy !
Making the Serving Tray
Squaring up the end
Cross cutting the Red Gum to length
Ripping the Red Gum to size
Marking the thickness
Scrub planning the Silky Oak
Cross cutting the Silky Oak to length
Rip cutting Silky Oak to size
Planing to thickness
Getting distracted by the grain
Matching the grain
Cleaning up the Dovetails
Marking the Silky Oak Dovetails
Cutting the Silky Oak Dovetails
Chiselling out the waste
The first dry fit and a crack
Cutting the bowtie
Notice the spalting (mould)
Applying the Tung Oil finish
Cutting the Tray Handles
Finnished
Silky Oak end grain Sandwich/wrap Board
Take one Silky Oak Log
Two person log Saw
The Saw has an amazingly clean cut
Hatchet removes the bark
Scraping is way quicker than sandpaper
After Scraping
Splitting for the Handle
Long Grain Heartwood with a strip of Sapwood
Cutting the handle tail
Marking out the cut for the handle
Chiselling a chamfer
Making a run of 4
Applying the Tung Oil
All four completed
Quiet Carpentry 