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  1. 3rd November 2010, 09:16 PM #1
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    Default What makes this style / Huon pine?

    Hi there,
    I have a piece of huon that has sort of a striped grain dose any one know what it is called or if it is quarter sawn.
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    Have a piece like it as well,looks like a fine fiddleback,rather than quarter-sawn grain.Probably from very old Huon i reckon
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    I have a piece with figure like that too. Someone called it whitebait, don't know the veracity of that. It is q'sawn.

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    Hah! waddeya know it does look like it is called whitebait...

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    I was thinking that it was white-bate as it looks like some of the NZ kauri thats in another thread. Thanks
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    can also be called "bears claw"
    everything is something, for a reason:confused:
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    my wife rekons its stretch marks , that tree has had babies.
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