Quarter Cut Wood Floors

Quarter sawn wood has an amazing straight grain pattern that lends itself to design.

Quarter cut wood floors. We offer almost all of your white oak selections with options to upgrade to longer lengths including 3 to 10 and 6 to 12 length options. There are roughly 3 ways to saw a wood log. So start by browsing our products below and you. This provides a.

Rift and quartered a combination of quarter sawn and rift sawn developing from the production run. Rift and quarter sawn red oak hardwood flooring. Quarter sawn lumber is defined as wood where the annular growth rings intersect the face of the board at a 60 to 90 degree angle. In quarter sawn flooring the log is first quartered and then each quarter is cut again into slices.

What is rift and quartered flooring. This cut is produced by quartering the log lengthwise which results in growth rings which are at 90 degrees to the face of the board. This method is the simplest way. 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 there is widespread confusion between the terms rift sawn and quarter sawn with the terms defined both with opposite meanings and as synonyms.

Plain sawing quarter sawing and rift sawing. This method also produces rift sawn flooring boards. Plain sawing or flat sawing also called tangential cut is the most common sawing method. This produces a straight striped grain and creates distinctive ray and fleck patterns in red and white oak.

The blade of the saw slices perpendicular to the wood s annual growth rings resulting in a straight line like grain appearance. We need to go down to the lumber sawing methods because it has an impact on the look of the hardwood floor at the end of the process. From a technical perspective rift and quartered flooring is made from planks where the growth rings intersect the face of the flooring at an angle from 30 degrees to 90 degrees. Why it s important to know how your hardwood flooring is cut the old adage is the wider the hardwood plank the more moisture it can and will hold onto and be effected by knowing what cut your hardwood flooring is isn t just for aesthetic reasons it s mainly structural.

When cutting this lumber at the sawmill each log is sawed at a radial angle into four quarters hence the name. In the photograph to the right the planks a to c and 1 to 3 are quartersawn the growth. We specialize in quarter sawn rift and rift quartered white oak flooring.