Post Office Box Door Banks

Jeffswildwood sent me a couple of PO box doors several months ago for my granddaughters and was able to send them with numbers corresponding to the girls' ages. I decided to make them for Christmas.

I found a board with nice figure but didn't know what kind of wood it was.

I planed it down to 1/2" thickness and cut it to width.

To avoid knots, I carefully laid out where the cuts were to be located....and cut the first side....1/2" too short 🤦‍♂️
Being constrained with how much was left, I decided the only option was to make the bottom out of glued-up offcuts.
Jeff had drawn me a nice plan with a curved top piece, but I had to go with a simple build.

I cut a rebate on the top inside faces of the sides to accept the tops leaving half thickness of both sides and the top exposed to be filled with contrasting wood. Dados were cut for the bottoms to slide in on small rebates.

I marked and drilled starter holes for the door screws (which were the original brass screws). (I lubricated the fragile screws with my moustache wax 😊) The doors were attached to one side, then the boxes were glued. The screws for the other side went in after the glue had dried.

The backs had a rebate around all sides so the backs would insert nicely with no gaps showing. The top exposed edges were filled with strips of some kind of mahogany and planed down then sanded flush.

Finish was several coats of simple sprayed lacquer.
After the boxed were delivered, my son, who has made many guitars, said the wood looked exactly like olive.
Thanks for looking.