This method also produces rift sawn flooring boards.
Quarter sawn mahogany flooring.
You may also sometimes see quarter sawn flooring referred to as radially sawn this is a method of cutting the logs so that the grain angle stays between 80 and 90 percent.
The blade of the saw slices perpendicular to the wood s annual growth rings resulting in a straight line like grain appearance.
The center boards true quartersawn will have growth rings.
In quarter sawn flooring the log is first quartered and then each quarter is cut again into slices.
Plain sawn rift and quartered rift only new antique and reclaimed in over 23 species available.
The rift sawn red oak offers a calm straight grained appearance used in many contemporary settings for doors cabinetry flooring and other millwork.
Northern oak is preferred in all turning and flooring.
Widths from 1 to 12 and up with lengths from 1 foot to 14 feet and up.
What are the wood options for quarter sawn flooring.
Mahogany is the benchmark for stability contains a good level.
Just like most quality flooring quarter sawn is generally limited to the hardwoods.
Juglans nigra the eastern american black walnut is a species of deciduous tree in the walnut family juglandaceae native to north america it grows mostly in riparian zones from southern ontario west to southeast south dakota south to georgia northern florida.
Quarter sawn walnut lumber.
Genuine mahogany wood by whatever name mahogany is known by whether it is genuine mahogany honduras mahogany south american mahogany peruvian mahogany etc this species is probably the single most respected all time favorite furniture wood.