the Ohio Valley, where Sellersburg sits just north of Louisville in the kind of thick, river-bottom humidity that tests every material passing through it. Here the golden brown heartwood of Black Limba meets moisture-laden air, and what you notice is how the veneer holds its color and its lay—those grey-to-black streaks neither lifting nor warping but settling into the panels and millwork of a town that builds with quiet, working knowledge of wood. Rosebud ships from Louisville itself, just minutes south, which means Sellersburg shops receive their sheets with barely a shift in climate between warehouse and workbench, the grain arriving exactly as it left. That same proximity, that same ease of delivery, extends northward along the interstate corridor toward the suburban workshops and custom cabinet houses clustering around the lake towns of northern Ohio, where the demand for figured limba has been steady and