Sorry, I did not pay must attention to this thread since yesterday.
That stock is laid out very straight in the wrist and sweeps down into the toe. You cannot ask for better.
Curl (or fiddleback as some call it) is the up and down striping that appear PERPENDICULAR to the grain. It is the visual effect of the grain waving (or curling) back and forth ever so slightly. The tighter the waves the tighter the curl or fiddleback figure.
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