STEVE MCCREARY: This is quilted maple through the Northwestern United States. This stuff grows along kind of the coastal areas. I think that --

PATRICK OGLE: It's really beautiful. It's got a real grain on that. It must be beautiful on guitars.

STEVE MCCREARY: It is. When we finish it out, it looks like coal is blowing in a campfire or something. It's very three dimensional. I think it's a combination of the salt, air, and the soil along the coastline of the U.S. Northwestern Coast.

If you're trying to bend stuff, it can be a little different. You don't see a lot of quilted maple in -- for example, old furniture you see Bird's Eye Maple for example. You don't see a lot of quilted stuff, but it makes a very beautiful -- It's long been used for guitar, guitar tops and --

PATRICK OGLE: [OVERLAPPING]

STEVE MCCREARY: I don't know much about the use for doing furniture except that you don't see much of this kind of stuff.

PATRICK OGLE: It's probably the style.

STEVE MCCREARY: It's really expensive for one thing.

For the neck and bindings as I showed you earlier, we got stuff in here. All this '07, September '07 so it sits in here in this acclimating room, and it will sit for maybe a year before we'll use it after it's gone through the kiln. For the tops, we have a little homemade wind tunnel here. As you can see the --

PATRICK OGLE: The [SOUNDS LIKE] tarmac. Got a fan pulling through. You got to kind of [INDISCERNIBLE] some of this stuff.

STEVE MCCREARY: The maple wood we buy has already been through a drying process from the guy we buy it from, but it sits her still for quite a few months, and you can see that the ceiling does not go all the way to the roof in these rooms. The whole inside of the shop is a big bubble of climate control there.