When a couple trust you to make frames for their college diplomas, you actually do measure everything twice! I started with mahogany and maple and ended with 2 identical frames.
I met Melissa and Joe at one of our Jefferson Manor neighborhood events where I told them about my small woodworking shop. They reached out to me a month of so after to discuss framing their diplomas .
I’m so happy that I chose mahogany and maple, I love how the woods really go with the Auburn color scheme and I’m especially happy of the dentil work. Maple burns easily, I used a new Freud Thin Kerf blade with a zero clearance insert. I also used my Incra ibox in new ways, not for making boxes but for dentil molding work.
It all came together and wow.
mahogany and maple 
low profile cove 
enough for 2 
cutting a dado on router table 
cutting maple strips 
maple strips fits snugly in dado 
45 degrees 
maple for dentil work 
using the incra ibox 
minimum thickness for jig 
cut down the middle 
may I never sand again 
attach to frame 
finish with mahogany 
cut to size 
the cove bit 
router table 
using thicknesser to get same width 
more miters 
Cascades Studios 
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