Batch 4471 landed two shades darker than the swatch we signed off on, and the temper is stiffer across the butt.
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beforeyou cut
Drum times ran long on the oak-bark run, so the grain came back tighter than the November lot did.
We want a second bark supplier lined up and audited well before the autumn order drops on us.
Split thickness has drifted 0.3 mm across the last three deliveries and nobody flagged it upstream.