Can you elaborate and/or Show Pics that describe: Flame & Feathering when describing wood?
Keep seeing these terms and have no idea what they mean exactly when looking at a piece of wood…Regards, Tony Hi Tony, it’s pretty much just like it sounds, if you can picture the visual image of “flame” or feathering, it’s that quality or visual aspect represented in the woods figuring. Claro walnut can have that factor going, English / French walnut can have that factor going as well. Here are some examples: This is a Tomahawk custom stock done by Mike Abernethy, great Flame / Feathering: Click to enlarge Here is a stock Paul Bishop made for Carl (Thumper2), another great example of flame / feathering: Click to enlarge The terms used for figuring in wood are pretty much “somebody’s attempt to describe what they see”, pretty self explanatory but it does help to have some examples to look at, so I’ll post a few more up here. I LOVE nice wood, Arnold Smith and Vlad B. and Carl (Thumper2) have Fantastic gorgeous wood collections, many other folks on this forum as well. The descriptions
