Recently I built 5 picture frames all 8x12 for my Grandpa as it is his 90th birthday. We had a family wedding last year so I used the opportunity to frame up some of the photos from that day.
I started with some live edged sassafras boards. Some of which had twists and bows in it, luckily nothing too extreme. I made a jig for cutting the live edge off on the table saw to give me a flat edge that I could run along the table saw fence.

The small picture frames are 50mm wide with walnut splines in the miters for strength. This was the first time I had made picture frames. Some cool figure in the sassafras looked like a butterfly on one of the frames.
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A friend saw these and asked if i'd make him a few picture frames. He said he liked the look of the sassafras but I only had 4 small slabs left. Luckily I had just enough for his frames which were approx 1250x900mm but due to my limited stock I could only go as wide as 60mm for the frame. He was happy with this but i'd like to have done something wider just to add some extra strength. One of the pieces had a crack at the bottom and my dimensions were so tight with the stock I had that I needed to use this so I mixed up some casting resin with some coffee grounds and it worked quite well actually.
Some pretty bad bow and twist meant the boards went from 25 to 18mm and that was what was usable

The other issue I was having with such large frames was that my standard way of adding a spline to the corners on the table saw jig wouldn't work. This was just due to the awkward size of these large frames. I thought about hand cutting the slots but settled on just using my Leigh Super FMT to add loose tenons to each miter for strength.

Two coats of danish oil and some u-beat wax to finish. I couldn't get the whole frames in the shot due to their size so here are a few detailed photos. Once they are installed i'll put up some more photos.

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