Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work (1912)
American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 30
ined, these terms being used to indi-cate the relation of the fibers to each other and to the generaldirection of the growth of the tree. The wood is said to be finegrained when the annual rings are relatively narrow so as to showa large number of fine lines on a cross section of the log, and it… … Fig. 2. Diagram of Pine Wood Fibers Magnified 17 3 CARPENTRY which arc coarse grained and they can be made to take a high polish,while with the others, as a rule, this is not possible. Fine-grainedwoods arc also said to be close grained. When the fibers are straightand parallel to the direction of…
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