Finished product

I used double sided tape to stick a piece of walnut and cherry together. I didn't have a bandsaw, so I used a router + a jig saw to make some curves. Then I swapped alternating pieces for the first step of the checkerboard process

I wasn't prepared for how much material the router would remove, and the pieces wouldn't fit nicely together, so I decided to fill in the spaces with epoxy as an excuse to do my first epoxy pour

After the epoxy pour, I cut some more curves in the perpendicular direction to the first curves, and filled the spaces with epoxy one last time

Second epoxy pour

First look out of the mold

The other purpose for this project was I wanted to try a rectangular turning

There were some voids in the epoxy, so I filled them with CA glue and a bright orange epoxy dye powder to exploit and highlight the imperfections

Experimented with free hand routing for my sister's first initial. Filled with more CA glue and epoxy die 

Finished with boiled linseed oil, spray-on shellac, and paste wax