Both of the stock blank photos have a lot of glare that might be hiding the rays on the head end....
This could be.
I probably have it wrong, but if I look past the rays and other figure at the head of the stock, I see wood grain at 90* to the direction of the blank. Because the blank pattern appears to be fairly symetrical, I can't quite picture how the tight quarter sawing is lost and the grain appears to be verticle and wide at the head?
The stock blank pictures are flipped 180* from the original blank selection choices. Because it's a straight grip stock, my senses tell me a layout pattern on the blanks would/might be comb down when looking at the blank pictures in this thread. It looks to me like the blank pictures in this thread were oriented with only the direction of the feather pattern in mind. If the blank and stock corelated, the straight part of the blank that would be the head, looks like it would be lopped off, and there's no wood to lay out the head of a stock in the other direction?
