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2. Quarter sawing - Wikipedia

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   A method for logs over 19 in (48 cm) Quarter sawing or quartersawing is a woodworking process that produces quarter-sawn or quarter-cut boards in the rip cutting of logs into lumber. The resulting lumber can also be called radially-sawn or simply quartered. There is widespread confusion between the terms rift sawn and quarter sawn with the ...

3. Rip cut - Wikipedia

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   Rip cuts produce lumber of different cuts such as quarter sawn (A), flat or plain sawn (B), or rift sawn (other image). In woodworking, a rip-cut is a type of cut that severs or divides a piece of wood parallel to the grain. The other typical type of cut is a cross-cut, a cut perpendicular to the grain. Unlike cross-cutting, which shears the ...

4. Rift sawing - Wikipedia

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   Rift sawing is a woodworking process that aims to produce lumber that is less vulnerable to distortion than flat-sawn lumber. Rift-sawing may be done strictly along a log's radials—perpendicular to the annular growth ring orientation or wood grain—or as part of the quarter sawing process.

5. Graf Brothers Flooring and Lumber - Wikipedia

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   Graf Brothers Flooring and Lumber specializes in, and is the world's largest manufacturer of, rift and quarter sawn oak products. [3] Rift & Quartered lumber results from a unique way of sawing that maximizes the yield of lumber with vertical grain. Vertical grain is preferred because of its excellent technical properties.

6. Wood grain - Wikipedia

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   The way a given piece of wood has been sawn affects both its appearance and physical properties: flat-grain: flat-sawn, slab-sawn, plain sawn, bastard-sawn, or sawn "through and through". edge grain: quarter-sawn or rift-sawn or straight-grained, and; end grain: the grain of wood seen when it is cut across the growth rings.

7. Lumber - Wikipedia

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   The "quarter" system of reference is a traditional North American lumber industry nomenclature used specifically to indicate the thickness of rough sawn hardwood lumber. In rough-sawn lumber it immediately clarifies that the lumber is not yet milled, avoiding confusion with milled dimension lumber which is measured as actual thickness after ...