where Simpsonville's craftsmen have learned to see the golden brown heartwood not as a static color but as a living thing, a surface that will shift and settle into richer tones over the years the way Shreveport's makers learned before them. What distinguishes Simpsonville's relationship with Rosebud's Black Limba is the particular appetite here for those grey to nearly black streaks and veins—the dramatic figured character that defines true Black Limba and separates it from its plainer White Limba counterpart—finding its way into custom cabinetry and millwork across Shelby County with a confidence that comes from trusting the source in Louisville. Every flitch that arrives carries that same consistency of grading and selection, the sapwood's pale greyish-yellow transitioning seamlessly into heartwood so that a panel's full face tells one unbroken story. And as those panels make their way from Simpsonville workshops into finished installations, the narrative they carry extends further still—reaching toward Sioux Falls,