You did mention it has nice grain. But you need to adjust the color balance on the right image or give us a real closeup so we can REALLY appreciate the grain.
ralfino | 19 Oct 2008 - 18:32 PDT
That piece isn't finished. It's hard to get its grain to show well in a pic.
Finished material from the same limb:

Tommy | 19 Oct 2008 - 19:52 PDT
Now that's grain! I see what you were raving about. Send me a 1" cube sometime if you got it. It would look good on a presidential desk!
ralfino | 21 Oct 2008 - 05:44 PDT
Are these woods that you inherited from your dad?
Tyler | web | 24 Oct 2008 - 08:04 PDT
Yes. He harvested and dried the sycamore and apple lumber, the former from a tree at our house and the latter from a tree that (if I recall correctly) was at an aunt's house.
Tommy | 24 Oct 2008 - 10:39 PDT