Just like most quality flooring quarter sawn is generally limited to the hardwoods.
Quarter sawn mahogany flooring.
The rift sawn red oak offers a calm straight grained appearance used in many contemporary settings for doors cabinetry flooring and other millwork.
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.
Mahogany is the benchmark for stability contains a good level.
Quartersawn walnut is simply black walnut lumber cut in a quarter sawn grain orientation.
In quarter sawn flooring the log is first quartered and then each quarter is cut again into slices.
Quarter sawn walnut lumber.
The blade of the saw slices perpendicular to the wood s annual growth rings resulting in a straight line like grain appearance.
What are the wood options for quarter sawn flooring.
Widths from 1 to 12 and up with lengths from 1 foot to 14 feet and up.
Northern oak is preferred in all turning and flooring.
This method also produces rift sawn flooring boards.
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.
Plain sawn rift and quartered rift only new antique and reclaimed in over 23 species available.
Solid and engineered wood flooring hardwood softwood to 1 thick.