Side-by-side comparison

[Dave Bagwill]

Does anyone have a pic or a link that shows boards cut from the same tree - one that is quartersawn, one that is rift, one that is flatsawn? That shows the end grain of each, the face of each?

[Tim Benware]

Is this another one of those joke threads?

[Dave Bagwill]

Nope. What brings it up is that I have the opportunity to purchase some wood from the luthier I visited, and I've never bought anything other than music wood from Ken or Lmii or other known source. The wood I'm being offered is in wedge-shaped billets and I'm not certain how to read them.
In any case I found a good picture and explanation.

[Tim Benware]

I was actually, joking:) Post them, I'd be interested.

[Dave Bagwill]

:-) Will do later.

[peter havriluk]

I assumed (no experience) that if I had a wedge-shaped hunk of tree and I wanted to turn it into as much quartersawn wood as I could, I'd have to reduce the big wedge to as many little wedges as possible, like cutting a pie into smaller and smaller slices, with the narrow end of the slice thick enough to allow the slice to be sanded flat. A good amount of the original wedge would wind up as sawdust, but everything left would be quartersawn. I don't know how wood processors actually turn logs into instrument lumber, and I could be over-thinking or missing the point entirely.

[Dave Bagwill]

Here's a comparison pic from the web and aalso a pic of what I was looking at in the luthier's shop - also from web.

How to get 1/4 sawn from that billet?