Picture Frame in Walnut and Maple, Part 1

I plan most of my projects in a way that forces me to practice the different joinery techniques that I want to learn.
My focus here is on miters which are obviously handy for picture frames.

The print here is by Nicole Gustafsson, and is shown with permission.

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I started with some walnut left over from a bedframe I made.

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I decided I would use splines, so I have marked the saw lines here.

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Once all the spline grooves are cut,

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I can line up the miter,

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And glue in the spline.

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Only, something went inexplicably, horribly wrong. The splines lined up but the grooves that I cut in the back for the frame mat and glass were somehow on the wrong side.

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So I ended up making the splines twice as wide.

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For Part 2, adding some texture.

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