Are you trying to be even more suggestive than Peter?

No...that was my "serious" sentence...I really do think the pattern is eye-popping.

But if I beat out Peter at being suggestive...I guess that is a compliment? Eh?

>>... for some reason that finish reminds of a nicely finished rifle stock, warped I know, but true.

It is a good analogy. Custom rifles are one of the few places where a really high quality piece of wood was always given a gloss finish -- presumably to help keep it waterproof. Some of the nicest wood patterns I have ever seen (most of them, in fact) have been on rifle stocks.