I have been really pleased wit these Ahrend's conversion targets on my 629-6. Black/Siver stained Tiger maple, Tung oil finish. I love how the grain breaks both ways - predominant shadowing east to west, and subtler grains running roughly north and south under that. I want some Culinas badly, but I like this maple so much it's driving me to buy a blue gun just so I can put a pair of Ahrends red stain maple on it.