Here are a few pics.
The shooting board:
The top (sitka spruce) after jointing and gluing:
The back, just after being cleaned up a bit. Still needs more thicknessing:
The sides; pic taken of the bandsawn sides prior to thicknessing. That's a lot of rosewood; there's more stickered in the garage. It's been seasoning for the 20 years or so that I've had it, and of unknown age prior to that. It was sold to me in the early '80s as two planks of
bois de rose; research turned up the
Dalbergia maritima nomenclature - maritime rosewood. Apparently some think of this as Madagascar rosewood, but I think that is a different species,
Dalbergia baronii. I may track down a botany student at UVM to put a slice under a microscope and see if it can be further identified at a molecular level. Whatever it is, it is beautiful, stiff and strong as the dickens with a ringing tap tone.
