I went down to the old water tank place to get some more redwood a while back as I find redwood has a really nice tone, and before something makes it disappear from the water tank place. I figured I would get enough to last me for a long time. I bought a couple of planks, and had them leaning up in the garage. It was a about 2 weeks later (maybe they dried out a little bit) that I looked at the big plank, and realized that the banding on the plank was not surface stains, but was the result of the redwood being curly! I have now milled out some of this wood, and have started to make some tops. I think it is going to be fabulous.