In my basement I have right now a yew root burl drying. From what I saw at the cut ends, it has a lot of figure and lots of eyes. Just have to wait some time, this fall I will cut it up. Hope to get maybe 20 pens out of it. Unfortunately, there were three or four more, but when I came home, the landscaper had dug them up and cut the to shreds, one was left intact and I rescued it from the shredder.