Antique Cypress - tight grain

Several years ago while visiting Antique Woods of Louisiana in Sunset, LA, I picked up a piece of old tight grained cypress that had been used to test some stains.  One side was gray stained, the other had dark brown on one end and a lighter brown on the other end.  So I cut a strip from it, resewed it and made 120 crosses.  60 are gray on one side (rough sawn) and planed natural on the other; these I left natural, unfinished.  The other 60 I stained, some with walnut and some with puritan pine, then gave two coats of poly.

dadoes cut

gray stain rough sawn, natural sanded unfinished

sanded stained, rough sawn stained, rough sawn walnut stained

p60