Yup, for the craft of stockmaking and the assessment of a blank, I thought it would have been a good topic to discuss.

The grain, not the feather pattern, of the blank would appear to radiate from the comb down to the toe, or if somehow flipped, it would radiate towards the heal. Of course, in the finished stock, the grain pattern is just the opposite radiating from the toe forward. I think that point was realized at some point, but a cropped set of pictures was deleted this morning. Oh well.

The whole package is a heck of a project even though not my cup of tea. If it was my baby, I suppose I'd be defensive about it, but maybe there's some room to learn from the little disconnects.