I'll make sure you get the appropriate amount of shavings for this puzzler DENNIS S.
HOWEVER, lets start a controversy and find out which is a consensus response.
The ITCH is certainly important in directing passion to an idea and then to a design, so without the ITCH a project just wouldn't happen.
As DENNIS S suggests the FLITCH is very important in fabricating a fine piece of work.
A FLITCH as I understand it is sequentially cut pieces of wood wether straight from the tree/log or as veneer. Sequence to me means that the bottom face of a piece of wood is separated from the top face of the next piece of wood by the kerf of the cutting instrument. For instance a log cut and stickered so that it essentially maintains its "logishness" as each slab is separated by the kerf and the stickers. Thus, the flitch provides material with almost identical grain, color and moisture content. Those properties of the flitch make it essential for really superb projects.
O K lets have some agreement or other opinions