How did you feel about ability of the ash to take checkering?
Prior to this I've checkered several types of walnut and maple. Ash (or at least this stuff) checkered nicely when I was going across the grain or even mostly across the grain. But seemed like spongy cutting with the grain as the cutter (carbide from Ullman) wanted to not bite into the wood. This forced me to increase pressure with my fingers and they get quite tired in a hurry.
I have two more stocks just like this coming up and maybe by the time I'm finished with them the term "ash" will take on an entirely different meaning than it does now.
