re: Mortise cleanup and Trimming the trim

Thanks, guys! Yeah, granadillo - I’ve also seen it called macacauba. It’s a nice hard dense wood. I will sometimes snag a piece from savagewoods during a sale. Makes very nice spokeshaves and knife handles, too. I routinely will take 2 inch “turning blanks” and resaw them for box sides or things like this. 

Neighbor stopped by and helped cut a 1¼ inch x 12/4 x 4’ strip off my ash slab, so I’ll be cutting that into cane shafts for the next update, probably tomorrow.