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For a Christmas gift for my parents and my wife's parents, I decided I would build a picture frame for each of them. I used 4/4 cherry milled down to 7/8 on the top rail and 3/4 on the other rail and styles. I used traditional mortise and tenon joints to connect them. I wanted a project that would allow me to use my workbench to create something using mainly hand tools. This was a great project for that. While these were definitely not made with hand tools alone, I did use a fair number of them. The finish is about 5 costs of Danish Oil followed by a paste wax rub down. I did all of the matting at the frame shop at the Air Force base where I work. All in all, the project took me about 2 weeks from start to finish.

Thanks for looking.

Edit - May 2018 - After making the first one for my folks for Christmas, my wife has been hinting that she wanted one for our house as well. I was able to find some beautiful Curly Cherry and made another frame for Mothers Day 2018.

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Very Nice Indeed! Well Done Also Breeze! They'll Love them!
 

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Terrific work and a terrific gift.
 

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Very nice gift idea!

The design complements the photo nicely, great combo.

It is also cool that you decided to use meat-powered tools for much of the work 8^)
 
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