A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 644
le thosein wiiieh a broad jiiece lies flat on the surlacchave no cnduranec, tlie broad pitce, as in theplank in Fig. 1, splitting oH with the greatestease, and sometimes hy tlie mere action ofshrinkage, so as firet to form long splintersand then to break away. This is the reasonwhy Quarter-sawed… … others the tendency before spoken of, to splitor separate, is very great, and also because thetendency of all logs is to check from drying,the checks opening in the direction of linesradiating from the centre. Quarter-sawing (seetliat term ; also Clapboard) is resorted to, there-fore, as shown in…
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