I was in an Amish furniture store the other day and noticed something I hadn’t noticed before…though I’m not sure why, it was the firtst thing I noticed when I looked at all the chairs. They had several styles of windsor type chairs made from red oak I think. What I noticed is that the surface with the mudullary (spelling?) rays are all on the top of the bent back. In other words, that quartersawn look you can only see if your standing over the chair looking straight down on the top of the bent back. Having not steam bent anything this may be a dumb question…but wouldn’t it look much more attractive if you could see those rays by looking head on at the chair. Perhaps bending with the rays facing outward is harder to do? I don’t know. Just noticed it and thought it rather interesting.