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For their wooden cases, they favoured the heart wood of quarter-sawn white oak that showed off beautiful ray flecks. The designs often had elements of the Arts and Crafts Movement which also favoured quarter-sawn white oak. [citation needed] The company's fortunes began to change during the First World War.
Quarter sawing or quartersawing is a woodworking process that produces quarter-sawn or quarter-cut boards in the rip cutting of logs into lumber. The resulting lumber can also be called radially-sawn or simply quartered .
The "quarter" system of reference is a traditional North American lumber industry nomenclature used specifically to indicate the thickness of rough sawn hardwood lumber. In rough-sawn lumber it immediately clarifies that the lumber is not yet milled, avoiding confusion with milled dimension lumber which is measured as actual thickness after ...
This frequently happened inside as well as outside. Substantial wood millwork of mahogany, quarter-sawn oak, American chestnut, and walnut were often painted over in white to "lighten" rooms and make them feel more contemporary. [citation needed] The home's exterior was originally dark red brick until 1960 when it was painted "feather" gray. It ...
Odsus1 00:21, 22 October 2018 (UTC)The description of rift sawn in this article is absolutely incorrect, rift sawn is defined as sawing a log in a manner where the grain is between 30-60 degrees to the flat face of the board and is not rare at all, quarter sawn is defined as 60-90 degrees to the flat face of the board.
Rift-sawing may also be described as lumber produced during latter stages of stepped cuts on a quarter round, where the subsequent cuts are parallel to either of the initial quartering cuts. The AWI defines "rift sawing" as a technique of cutting boards from logs so the grain is between 30–60° to the face of the board, with 45 degrees being ...
A writing table (French bureau plat) has a series of drawers directly under the surface of the table, to contain writing implements, so that it may serve as a desk. Antique versions have the usual divisions for the inkwell , the blotter and the sand or powder tray in one of the drawers, and a surface covered with leather or some other material ...
Sawing logs into finished lumber with a basic "portable" sawmill An American sawmill, c. 1920 Early 20th-century sawmill, maintained at Jerome, Arizona. A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber.