The problem that I've run into now is that I hate to burn the stuff! My firewood guy happened to give me a particularly "clean" batch of oak, and I wound up setting aside a good bit of it to plank.
The firewood frame began as an experiment--I'd just gotten my new bandsaw and a nice 1" Timberwolf resaw blade, and I used some firewood to give the saw and blade a test run. It sliced the first chunk so nicely that I poked around the woodpile until I found a nice quartered chunk that had evidently been near a limb--the knot was left in an adjacent quarter, but (as grain tends to do) the grain had compensated by sweeping in a pleasing arc around the knot end of the limb. Red oak splits so cleanly that there wasn't much to do to the split edge.
A nice thing about quartered oak firewood is that it's already halfway to being quartersawn--all we have to do is slice it up!
Not much to say about the construction--it's a hand-cut M&T joint in each corner. I used a hand-scraper to preserve but smooth out the inner edges of the rails and stiles. Finished with Formby's "tung oil" finish.
Glad y'all liked the piece! Not much skill required here--just pretty wood!
