Straight Grain Parker:
I was inspired by the 2025 PGCA raffle gun to pull out a 1904 Damascus DH 12 with vivid straight grain from the head to the butt. This one demonstrates about as true a straight grain stock you will see.
The visible knot is looks almost 3D, though it’s smooth across the surface.
Any other examples the membership care to share?
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Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell and the profit and loss.
A current under sea picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell he passed the stages of his age and youth entering the whirlpool. Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
T.S. Eliot
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