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Dana Bourgeois's explanation of Bearclaw......

 

 

I should mention bearclaw figure, or hazelficte-a delightful pattern in the grain occasionally occurring in all species of spruce. Bearclaw, like the curl in curly maple, is a rippling of the longitudinal fibers, which divides the surface of the wood into shimmering patterns. Unlike the even waves that usually occur in maple, bearclaw usually appears on asymmetrical or randomly broken patterns. This phenomenon almost always occurs in older trees that have dense, stiff grain structure and high sound velocity. Thus bearclaw is usually a reliable indicator of the better examples of tonewoods within any given species of spruce.

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Dana Bourgeois's explanation of Bearclaw......

 

Thanks for posting this! I had read it somewhere, and wanted to post it in this thread but couldn't remember where I'd seen it.

 

For me personally, I don't care for the look o' claw on a git, but got a bit of it on my OM which does sound mighty sweet!

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