re: OpArt Lidded Box

Very pretty box, Splint! Like the perseverance on the parquetry, and the fumed oak gives it a great look overall.

I started (two or three times) on a tiled pattern, similar to Bentley’s, but with straight edges. Basically took a 2x2 and planed and sawed it down to get the bow tie shape which would fit with itself rotated 90 degrees to fill a plane. Then sliced that into little pieces and tried a few different approaches to gluing them together to make a pretty patterned board. One of these days I’ll figure out a way to get the fit better so I won’t start gluing them up and then discover I’m off by a 16th (or more!) from one end of a row to the other.