Preparing the front part II

I want to get the grain going nicely on the front. That means two things for me. One is to get the two sides of the front to be good mirror images. Which means that I need to identify the same growth ring on both halves. Luckily that wasn't too difficult. Secondly I want to have the grain to run parallel to the centre joint. In order to do that I just followed a growth ring and marked it with a ruler. This bit of wood was quite out of parallel to being with.