Quarter sawn walnut lumber.
Quarter sawn mahogany flooring.
This method also produces rift sawn flooring boards.
Solid and engineered wood flooring hardwood softwood to 1 thick.
The blade of the saw slices perpendicular to the wood s annual growth rings resulting in a straight line like grain appearance.
Quartersawn walnut is simply black walnut lumber cut in a quarter sawn grain orientation.
The rift sawn red oak offers a calm straight grained appearance used in many contemporary settings for doors cabinetry flooring and other millwork.
Just like most quality flooring quarter sawn is generally limited to the hardwoods.
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.
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.
Mahogany is the benchmark for stability contains a good level.
Widths from 1 to 12 and up with lengths from 1 foot to 14 feet and up.
Quarter sawn red oak does exhibit some fleck or medullary ray effect although it is not nearly as pronounced as in white oak.
Northern oak is preferred in all turning and 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.