Have you heard the terms quartersawn, riftsawn and flatsawn and wondered what on earth they mean? Often, sawyers like myself struggle to define these terms among ourselves, let alone explain them to others. I am by no means an expert on the subject, but I have been working with and learning from sawyers for most of a decade now, and I feel like I’ve finally gotten a grasp on what these terms mean. In this blog post I’ll give some examples and definitions that work well for me as I’m sawing and that I use everyday when talking with customers.
Read MoreI was perusing photos of old projects this week, and I realized that I have been fortunate to work with a number of really interesting and unique projects. We mostly sell flooring and lumber for furniture, so these projects stand out not only because they are unique, but because they are a departure from the norm, and were a ton of fun to work on. So in the interest of lightening up the blog after three installments of fairly heady material, for your Wednesday afternoon reading pleasure, here is a showcase of some of the more unusual projects that we have worked with over the years.
Read MoreI wrote about the history of Oregon White Oak in the Willamette Valley in Part 1 below, and the ecology of Oregon White Oak in Part 2. For the third and final section on Oregon White Oak, I am going to be describing the unique properties of it's lumber.
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