the patience a figured board demands. In Baltimore's row-house workshops and reclaimed-warehouse studios, Black Limba's grey-to-black veining against that golden brown heartwood has become a signature choice for craftspeople who want dramatic visual movement without resorting to stain—letting the wood's own mineral streaks do what pigment never quite can. The city's makers, sourcing flitches shipped direct from Rosebud's Louisville facility, have learned to read each sheet for the way its darker figuring will deepen with age and ambient light, a quality that turns a single cabinet face into something almost geological. It is precisely this interplay of time and tone that draws the coastal fine-furniture community still farther north, where Bar Harbor's