This tiny cherry frame started off as a test run for a spline jig I had just finished making for the table saw, but I saw an opportunity to give it a more glamorous life.  Though I am not a stamp collector, I do enjoy displaying items that will inspire and bring joy, John Oliver's Mr. Nutterbutter in this case.  While it turned out pretty well, there are definitely some things I would do differently on the next go round.  The first is I would have cut the recess where the art sits before gluing it up.  Routing it after the fact with some chisel clean up wasn't easy.  Given I wasn't planning on actually using the frame initially, this isn't a lesson learned but reinforcement that the recess needs to be completed first.  I also am learning that the more I use soft maple the more I don't like working with it, it is more delicate than I thought it would be.

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