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 .
Its always a bit of a gambol no matter how hard you try when selecting a blank . Fortunately most work out OK .
This sometimes happens, but when it does, figure typically gets better, or worse on one side of the stock. I've never seen nor heard of such a complete and total transformation on both sides of a stock. Straight and plain grain in the head with large pores does not become figured wood with small tight barely visible pores... especially on both sides. There was no evidence of sapwood that might be cut away during turning, which can really change appearance in some cases, but not in this one. Rays within the wood do not turn and reorient 90 degrees from a little cutting in the duplicator. It's not like this was a four or five inch thick blank. And when you can see a dark band of feather which shows the same direction on both sides, and is also visible of the edges... that signifies that it runs clear through the blank, virtually without question. No amount of turning is going to make it go away without turning the entire blank into chips and sawdust. The blank is almost certainly feather crotch Black Walnut. The finished stock isn't the same piece of wood.
