[Adan] We've just been hired by a local custom furniture builder to do an interesting inlay project. We're just doing the strips of inlay (two different patterns, multiple strips of each), which he'll then incorporate into the furniture he's building.
Yesterday he visited his friends at Jeffries Wood Works, and they sold him this lovely piece of quartersawn sycamore. He dropped it by Akertoys, and I just fell in love with the thing. This photo doesn't do it justice... it's just a beautiful piece of wood. Not super-flashy, no tiger-striped craziness here, just some wood showing its ray structure at its finest.
The other cool thing is the way we'll be doing the inlay: this isn't one of those jobs where you inlay Wood A into a substrate of Wood B (cherry into maple, say). No, here we'll be celebrating that nice quartersawn grain by using it as Wood A, and inlaying it into the exact same wood on a plain sawn orientation. Pretty slick. It'll be subtle, but totally visible. I can't wait to see it.