Thank you all for the nice comments and on the appreciation of the olive wood it self. I got this for free and it was green but when buying dry olive wood at Woodcraft, you need a fat wallet!!
Hi Dave your explanation of crack filling with tape dams is just what I had done. After 3 fills, I gave up because the wood was still moving too much to ever get ahead of it! I'll keep making things from it until I head back to Michigan.
Cheers, Jim ........................ Variety is the spice of life...............Learn something new every day