I do really like the look of northern white cedar, especially if it's clear/relatively knot free...
I have fond memories of helping my dad build a couple cedar strip boats. The first one he started when I was 10. I remember him ripping all the pieces to width on his radial arm saw, which he set up in the driveway for the task. I was on the catching end, catching everything as it came out of the saw, putting strips on the pile, and sending the board back for the next strip to be ripped off of it. We even used some offcuts from those boats to start building a scale model of a runabout. He had an old RC car that had a broken suspension - we were going to cannibalize it for parts to power/steer that model boat, but we never got a chance to finish it. It should still be in his shop - maybe, in time, I'll have to finish it with my boys...
I haven't worked with northern white cedar since helping dad build those two boats as a kid. Dave, if you have to have some clear boards left at the end that would fill a game box, or even a large pith free chunk that would fill the box - whatever's easiest to do - I think I'd like to get some for the sake of nostalgia. Dad is still alive, but his health is declining in so many ways and he's beyond the point of being able to do anything in the shop anymore.