thanks remus, i'll give it a try

How crucial is it that its plain sawn? theres some good quarter sawn textures here. If all else fails you could always go take a few pictures yourself.

Hi Keth, What Remus says (or more detailed): when you are not logged in, you can see a line "To see these forums when logged in, you need to join your custom usergroups." In order to see the woodworking subforum, go to your User Control Panel (top left of the board index if this link won't work) and join the woodworking usergroup. Please, note that you can join a bu8nch of subforums there but for some reason (it's coded into the forum software) only one at a time. And of course, welcome to the forums!