Originally Posted by tcp
Dwayne and Sitka, thank you for the replies. The tree grew on the edge of a pasture so has several crotches where large branches came off the trunk. Hopefully I can salvage something more interesting than firewood from it.
Another cool bit of figure can be found below limbs in a board-sawn blank, called Angel's Stairs.

angels Stairs in maple

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Last edited by Sitka deer; 08/17/22.

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