The Joint -Process

 Here are the tools and the pieces of pine I used. you can see the power drill, the tenon saw, the hack saw and the hole cutter.

I cut circles out of the pine and then used the tenon saw to cut them into quarters and cut sections out of 4 of the 8 slices. Then I used the 3mm drill bit to drill holes through all 8 pieces for the elastic to go through. I cut slots in 4 out of the 8 pieces. 

Here are the slices after I lined all of them up. As you can see there was a lot of sanding to be done. I took a photo of all the different degrees of sand paper that I used. Even after hours and hours of sanding there were still gaps that weren't going away so I used wood filler as seen below.

I tested out different stains for the wood but I didn't like the appearance of any of them. I finally found an oil based stain that I liked the shade of.