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ANGEL STEP

Cutting across stump and butt sections of trees sometimes produces a staircase-like, somewhat curly figure, that is commonly called "angel step". This occurs most frequently in walnut, but may occur in other woods such as ash and maple.

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Examples:


angel step black walnut veneer


quarter-matched angel step black walnut veneer


angel step maple (probably veneer, but it didn't say for sure)


angel step maple veneer


quarter-matched angel step ash veneer


the bottom view of a bowl made from angel step wood and the chunk from which it was cut


angel step bowl listed as ash


red maple trunks showning angel step