A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 348
wedas shown from a to c,gives by far the bestresults, as the annual rings cross the plank nearly at rightangles to its face, and the medullary rays being parallel tothis face will exhibit the lines of the silver grain, so soughtand admired in quartered oak. But it is not economical inmaterial, and… … Fig. 9. 18 CARPENTRY. § 9 as loss in estimating the amount of timber which can be cutfrom a log. The time required to reduce this quarter toplank is thirty per cent, more than is required to reduce thequarter cb, and fifty per cent, more than the quarter da.Therefore wood quartered in this manner…
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