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Originally Posted by gregpark

I took this pic a month ago in my buddy's shop. This is a slab he milled up from a big Sugar Pine he dropped 2 years ago. Actually the biggest Sugar ever recorded -16' at the butt. He has a pic of John Muir sitting at the base.

Wow, that's REALLY cool history! It looks like there's a little grain/character to the wood, but not much. I've seen some pretty pine/fir wood, maybe not walnut/maple nice, but that, at least in the photo, does look pretty featureless.