I have received the wood (see above pics) from RickyBobby.
Will have to whittle down a couple into scale size chunks and see how the figure, checks, knots, etc pan out. Hoping for a real nice special set of scales to jump out.
Tim

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
Albert Einstein

At Khe Sanh a sign read "For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the protected never knew".