Reading the grain

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Spit'n'Whittle
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Reading the grain

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Question: As you begin to sand down and finish out your stummel, I've noticed that I can see beautiful grain but in patchest there seems to be "clouds", if you will, of dull colorless wood. These clouds appear to be superficially overlaying the nice looking grain. Is this as it appears and can you sand down until you buff out the cloud and on cover the more asthetic grain underneath?
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Re: Reading the grain

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That is haunted wood. Those are ghosts. Burn all such stummels as soon as you find them or they will escape and haunt your shop forever.
UFOs must be real. There's no other explanation for cats.
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Sounds like trunk or core wood to me.
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Spit'n'Whittle
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Re: Reading the grain

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Ghosts! Just as I suspected! Ghouls of the Shires briar
Spit'n'Whittle
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Re: Reading the grain

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In all seriousness, I have suspected that I haven't received exactly what I ordered the last couple of blanks. However, I'm not going to say that for certain until I get a little bit better eye and understanding for what I'm looking at.
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Re: Reading the grain

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I think Wayne's right. Normally the cheaper lower quality briar.
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