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Old 01-11-2017, 12:51 PM
Alan Carruth Alan Carruth is offline
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Osage ages to a fairly dark brown over time with exposure to air and light. I friend of mine mistook some for BRW once. Finishing slows the process down, of course.

A lot of OO trees seem to be fairly gnarly. I'm not sure whether that's characteristic or simply due to the fact that the old, big ones may have started life as hedge trees, and were trained that way. I've seen pictures of large, straight ones as well. Gnarly ones will have gnarly grain, of course. I haven't seen curl of the sort you get in maple and some other woods in OO, but that doesn't mean it won't happen.
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