Thanks, Maurice. I look forward to seeing what this does over time. The book says it will get harder, but I'm a little skeptical. Selecting the wood was more labor than I expected. I wasn't able to find any SYP locally, so had to drive three hours to Menards in WV. They had plenty of 10' x 12", and I had to throw around pretty much all of it to find boards I liked. It was a long day of driving and sorting. But it was cheap. $275 vs. a comparable amount of hard maple pushing two grand.