It turns out that European Ash gets used to make baseball bats too. Who would have thought? This wood grows through out Europe into Asia Minor and Caucuses. It is a fairly popular wood but we have noticed that plain and figured quarters are getting harder to come by. There seems to be a lot more olive Ash longwood available these days though. Figured quarters can be a struggle to splice at times with a longitudinal splicer especially as they get narrower, so don't put away the veneer tape. We typically have panel length quarter figured in our inventory.