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Mindbender: How Can Wood Grain from a Single Board Match at All Four Corners of a Box?

Look at this wooden board. 

Let’s say you’re going to cut it into four pieces to make a box, like this:

Obviously the grain will match as it rounds corners B, C and D. But at corner A, where you’ve got the opposite ends of the board meeting, the grain will not match. In fact it’s impossible to have grain running continuously around a board, isn’t it?

Give craftspeople more credit, as they’ve figured out a clever way to have grain running all the way around a box, matching up at all four corners. Here craftsman Don Kondra demonstrates how it’s done: