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   sapwood | Apr 06, 2009 12:12am | #1

   Is that graft line?

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   flairwoodworks | Apr 06, 2009 12:29am | #3

   That was my first guess. No idea if it actually is, thoughChris @ http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com(soon to be http://www.flairwoodworks.com)

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   SgianDubh | Apr 06, 2009 12:24am | #2

   Chris, I don't have a definitive answer, just a best guess. Here it is with the reasoning.

   The yews I am familiar with, ie, the European yews such as Taxus baccata, seldom seem to create cylindrical trunks. More often than not the trunks are rather bent, exhibit spiral growth patterns and, further and most importantly, are quite frequently rather deeply furrowed in the length. The cross section of the trunk sort of resembles a starfish with blunt arms.

   So, and here is the guess, a tangentially cut plank may take in one of the ridges between the furrows and this might in effect resemble a switch from a tangentially cut plank (cathedralling figuring) to a radially cut plank (parallel grain figuring).

   If Pacific yew typically grows nice and straight with a cylindrical trunk, I'd say my guess isn't up to much, ha, ha. Slainte. 

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   flairwoodworks | Apr 06, 2009 12:36am | #5

   Richard,I've never seen either a bocote or pacific yew tree (or maybe I just didn't recognize it) so I did some research. I didn't find any pictures of a bocote tree, but the pacific yews matched your description.Chris @ http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com(soon to be http://www.flairwoodworks.com)

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   oldusty | Apr 06, 2009 12:33am | #4

      Looks like a growth pattern that occurs around limbs and knots , I have noticed  similar patterns in Fir and Pine .

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   WillGeorge | Apr 06, 2009 01:55pm | #6

   As RichardJones said.

   I looked but I could not find an example to send a picture of. I am SURE I have seen grain, like you posted within Jatoba. Just a guess, but I would think it is wood from where the trunk branches out at the top. Maybe wood at the trunk to branch split?. When purchasing wood, I tend to select 'sticks' with wild grain.

    

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   flairwoodworks | Apr 06, 2009 04:08pm | #7

   Will,This grain is certainly interesting!Chris @ http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com(soon to be http://www.flairwoodworks.com)

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   WillGeorge | Apr 08, 2009 02:12pm | #8

   This grain is certainly interesting!..

   And then you should use it as such!