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Wood grain is the longitudinal arrangement of wood fibers [1] or the pattern resulting from such an arrangement. [2] R. Bruce Hoadley wrote that grain is a "confusingly versatile term" with numerous different uses, including the direction of the wood cells (e.g., straight grain, spiral grain), surface appearance or figure, growth-ring placement (e.g., vertical grain), plane of the cut (e.g ...
"The work or shock-resisting ability is greatest in wide-ringed wood that has from 5 to 14 rings per inch (rings 1.8-5 mm thick), is fairly constant from 14 to 38 rings per inch (rings 0.7–1.8 mm thick), and decreases rapidly from 38 to 47 rings per inch (rings 0.5–0.7 mm thick).
Wood moved to Hoosick Falls in 1835, and worked in the blacksmithing department of the manufacturing establishment of Parsons and Wilder for four years.. After working in a carriage factory in Nashville, Tennessee, Wood returned to Hoosick and in partnership with John White manufactured iron mould-board plows (patented by a kinsman, Jethro Wood).
Scots pine, a typical and well-known softwood. Softwood is wood from gymnosperm trees such as conifers.The term is opposed to hardwood, which is the wood from angiosperm trees.