Large pieces of wood are wonderful for grain and color matching. For a small piece of furniture you can get most of the structure and then use the fall down for drawer fronts and panel rail and style stock. The down sides to large pieces of wood they tend to have a lot of strength and twist and bow as they are milled and, unless you have very large machines, they are harder to mill.
I have overcome this issue by splitting the large boardsinto smaller pieces and gluing them back together in the sequence they where split. This stabilizes the wood and allows me to mill them efficiently on my machines.
The three large pieces are for the side of an entry table and the diagonal piece at the top is for the two drawer heads. The grain at that end of the board dived off dramatically and the diagonal cut was to get a straight grain piece. The smaller diagonals and long piece are for panel stock for the shelves and back.
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Shaker style furniture .
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