So I'd like to ask the experts here... How does the figure in a blank make such a transformation??? If we could learn how to do this, we could probably turn plain maple into Circassian Walnut. So....
bOb might've had it finished by the tricksters at Beretta...
Or bOb in his excitement might have posted the wrong photos...even Nasty bOb can mess up.
What makes it hard for me to envision that stock out of that blank is the photos.
When working a stock up from a blank it is not unknown for all the pretty grain to end up on the floor so the finished job does not meet up to expectations . On the other hand some time the finished stock exceeds expectation and you wished you could have charged more for the blank
Great analogy.
(In the future I might need to refer to Nasty bOb as Lucky bOb)
In wood turnery you can expect most anything to happen...I've saw the most craziest looking piece of wood turn into the most plain and the average plain looking blank turn into a killer piece.
Although rare with wood most anything is possible.
