are shorter and the eye catches every seam, every color mismatch, every wavering line where veneer meets substrate. Newark's commercial contractors understand this intimately—when Black Limba panels line a lobby or conference room, the grey-to-black streaks that define the species become a kind of honest test, because figured veneer with dramatic veining will betray any misalignment or poor bookmatching far faster than a plain sawn sheet ever could. Rosebud ships these flitches from Louisville already sequenced and graded so that the golden brown heartwood and its darker figuring arrive ready for the precision Newark demands, but the same disciplined approach travels just as well to studios and showrooms further down the coast, where the light shifts and the architecture opens up into something