I don't fully understand that yet Marc, maybe has something to do with the stave not being perfectly flat and straight? Sure It'll hit me in the head one day
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. Well, didn't want to let this thing set idle for too long so I wouldn't have to dig through pages of posts to find it.
I brought it along to work with me this week along with a bag of rasps and stuff
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. A little OT in the Hotel room and I have the tips worked down purty close. The overlays are of Texas or Mexican Mountain Laurel (also Mescalbean) root. I picked this wood up in south TX and be durned if it don't look (almost) just like osage (and hard) but the rings are a lot tighter and has some yella, orange, a reddish colors to it. Anyway - real purty and hard
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