This might seem a little out of the comfort zone of many Technologists, but hear me out, it has a place in your understanding of detailing.
Just recently, I have read yet again the story of Longitude, and believe me its a great tail of innovation, seatrips, a fierce personal battle with Parliament, and there is the evil megalomaniac well perhaps thats a little strong, but worth it I think, and the Kings intervention.
But back to the plot, John Harrison, the guy who invented the chronograph, the sea going clock that allowed easy calculation of Longitude, created his first clock in timber, and so as not to allow the teeth of the various cogs the snap, he oriented the grain for each cog to radiate from the centre of the cog, giving it the best chance of survival, which they did.
The point I am making here is that when detailing try an consider the grain of the timber your using, and orient it to suite the forces that might be acting on it, and also how it might warp. Careful study of this problem will show that detailing the grain, together with careful fixing, will prevent cracks and unsightly gaps appearing. My CPD is to expand upon this with a series of details I will post later.
It's difficult to make out, but this link takes you to a site where they discuss the topic of timber clocks, and there grain orientation , the X-ray photo is right at the end of the discuss, which I might add it not bad and worthy of reading.
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