Thanks fellas!
Ed!!! Glad to see ya back!
Clint, it does wiggle back and forth, but no where near as extreme as your stuff. This stuff is way more subtle. Hopefully that will make the difference.
For those of you wondering what we're talking about in regards to figure and grain. The anomaly that produces the tiger stripe chatoyancy in the wood is known as curl. You see a lot of curl in maple and its fairly common in walnut. It is however very uncommon to find in Osage. I have a piece that Clint gave me that is pretty extreme curl and as such, absolutely beautiful. If you look at the edge of the wood in the picture, you will see a small sliver that zig zags back and forth. This is the grain we are talking about that produces the effect. Josh