Well, a friend of mine and I spent some time putting together a really nice workbench out of some 8/4 Pecan from a local lumber yard (Jeffery's Woodworks...a GREAT source of wonderful wood of all sorts...not cheap but great stuff). It was VERY hard, and, very dusty to run through the planer, but, produced a spectacular workbench top. As it worked out, we were able to book-match slices across the bench, so, it looked rather like a slice from a trunk that was about 30" thick. One FINE looking workbench if I say so myself. Regards Dave Mundt