I love this pattern by Brichbark. Wanted to do it in cherry wood. I had to do a glue up to get a piece big enough. These pieces I glued were almost the same color and grain. The top piece was a little lighter but only a little. Then when I soaked it in BLO/MS the little darker piece went a lot darker, the top did not seem to change color at all. Would have been kinda cool if I had pieces like this that I could glue up with the grain running vertical, and have the light piece in the middle so that the star, manger and all the way down were light and the dark was on both sides. Oh, well, I will try it again with different wood.