Todays Project - What did you do today?

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Thanks Randy,
Now that you've mentioned it, I guess I've been unintentionally steering toward cleaner, simpler lines in the pieces I've been doing. It's practical in nature when I'm building kitchen cabinets. Spill something down the front of a cabinet and try to wipe it off a door with a fancy raised panel, bordered with a frame sporting a Roman Ogee edge.
I read through your post on Hobby Machinist. Your work is inspirational. A testament to the fact that wood and metal work can go hand in hand.
Ash seams to be the wood of choice at the moment, mainly because I quartersawed a couple thousand feet of it a few years back. By choice I prefer cherry, a lovely wood to work with and it seams to have such a depth to it when you get a finish on it. In a couple of years quarter sawn red oak will be in flavour. I got a load of fire wood logs a month ago. At least a quarter of the load are saw logs, would be a sin to cut and split them.
I was using a new 4 flute centre cutting end mill when I machined those slots for the table wings. My mill has a top speed of 4200 rpm, still low but probably not bad for HSS. On those parts the slot was 13 inches long. The harmonic it set up was deafening. Speed and feed rate made little difference. The first piece pulled into the cutter and ruined it. I had to support the end on a machinist jack and clamp it down. Despite all the noise the finish in the slot was incredible.
No need to apologize for the mirror, thats not dirty, its pantene. I know it too well, I also lost my wife to cancer, many years ago now.

As for Todays Project, it looks like we're off to salvage some big white pine logs that a wind storm made available. No need for pine lumber at the moment and worst, no where to store it but the hoarder in me won't let them go to the dump.