Analyzing wood species grain and sawing methods here s a long and complex but very informative thread that starts off with a wood identification problem moves into a discussion of wood pore structure and then takes off on an interesting tangent about quartersawing flatsawing and other methods for piecing out a log.
Tight grain hardwood.
White oak plywood has a tight grain and is a different species than red oak.
Its tight grain and hardness makes it a popular wood for gymnasium floors cutting boards and the heels of women s shoes.
The sapwood is light colored and the heartwood is light to dark brown.
Difficult to stain evenly.
Wide variation in lower grades.
12 harder than red oak.
Close grained wood also called fine grained wood is any wood in which the annual rings in the wood are tight or close.
Hickory carya spp the first strictly american hardwood species since it survived the glacial epoch some 50 million years ago.
White oak is mostly straight grained with a medium to coarse texture with longer rays than red oak.
A clean and contemporary hardwood floor.
White oak on the other hand has such a tight cell structure that water can t pass.
That s why white oak works so well for whiskey barrels and outdoor furniture.
Lignum vitae a hardwood native to the west indies has the finest grain of any wood known and an ironlike density.
Creamy white in highest grade.
Minimal grain extremely tight color range in highest grades.
Ambers slightly with exposure to light.