I looked in the "Introduction" section, and couldn't find even a brief summary. If you filled out your profile, or even your location, that would be nice.
excerpt from the link.......
A one-of-a-kind example, this exceptionally rare Busato features highly figured solid back and sides which are not easily identified. It could be cypress, Japanese tamo, ash, or a rare form of maple grown in the San Juan Islands of Washington State.
What about a rotary cut veneer from a smaller figured branch? Would that produce a grain pattern that sort of repeats like that? Maybe I'm using the wrong term...
I worked in a sawmill as a kid, amazing what mother nature can do.
More a matter of patience and luck than genius, luthier didn't make the pattern, it grew that way.
I read about people growing trees way back when and tying cords around the trunk to induce certain grain patterns. Might be an example of that?? Either way, really pretty.
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