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Side-by-side comparison
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 5:39 pm
by 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?
Re: Side-by-side comparison
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 11:48 pm
by Tim Benware
Is this another one of those joke threads?
Re: Side-by-side comparison
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 12:49 am
by 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.
Re: Side-by-side comparison
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 9:44 am
by Tim Benware
I was actually, joking:) Post them, I'd be interested.
Re: Side-by-side comparison
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 10:15 am
by Dave Bagwill
:-) Will do later.
Re: Side-by-side comparison
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 2:24 pm
by 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.
Re: Side-by-side comparison
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 2:44 pm
by 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?