Ok Mac, here's the dish in dish idea. May not get a lid until after the Steelers' win, but it will be the soft maple, I've decided, rather than a cherry lid. Susan and I decided that a heart-shaped lid would look too "dorky."
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Just linseed to begin. Probably follow on with wipe-on poly. Center section is one inch deep, total height to the points of the heart is almost an inch and a half. Would have been more, but the check ran in, not just parallel....
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Back side nothing special, but I'm thinking Mod Two may be a heart as "Feet," with a round box tenoned into the hold. Don't know what wood yet, I'll find out when I go down to feed the furnace.