Building construction and superintendence, by F.E. Kidder ... (1896)
Kidder, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1859-1905 · New York, W.T. Comstock · leaf 29
pear as parallel lines, as shownon the edge of the board in Fig. 2.Such boards are commonly calledquarter-sawed, * and in some millsquarter-sawed boards are obtained bypicking out these pieces. 19. Quarter-Sawed Lumber.—Realquarter-sawed lumber, however, isobtained by first quartering the logand… … Fig. 16. * The expressions quarter-sawed, rift-sawed, vertical-grained, straight-grained and edge-grained, as applied to manufactured wood, mean identically the same thing.—NorthwesternLumberman. When the lines of summer wood appear perfectly straight and parallel it is some-times called…
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