I got a few hours in the evening and spent them turning a bunch of wide boards into thin ones and sawdust:
Then I started gluing a bunch of those thin boards into a simple laminate for an inlay. Once the glue dried, I split the laminate on the tablesaw:
Split some maple stock for some thin boards, then routed an inlay groove:
Then glue and weight. And wait.
Dialed the planer down to an eighth of an inch and fed them through.
And then there was more gluing and clamping.
Finished up the magazine blanks by making a simple jig to route the magazine catch groove with a 1/8 spiral bit:
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