Wide Plank Quarter Sawn Oak Flooring

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Wide plank quarter sawn oak flooring. Hardwood lumber timbers bark mulch wood chips and sawdust. Wide plank flooring custom sawn in the usa since 1965. Even for reclaimed wood planks made from oak hickory and other hardwoods tend to be no more than 10 inches to 12 inches due to the nature of the source trees. How is quartersawn white oak cut.

Quartersawn white oak is cut by first sawing the timber into quarters and then slicing each quarter like a loaf of bread at an angle to the surface of the timber. This flooring is mostly quarter sawn but will have some rift sawn planks in the mix. This cut is produced by quartering the log lengthwise which results in wedges which intersect the board face at 60 to 90 degree angles. Wide plank flooring 6 to 20 inches wide can be made from reclaimed wood or new boards.

Learn the pros and cons of this expensive flooring material. Quartersawn white oak has a more consistent grain pattern than plain sawn timber with more rays or flecks in the grain pattern than rift sawn timber. Plain sawn is the most traditional cut used for flooring. Varying grain from plain sawn cathedral grain to rift sawn and the most spectacular quarter sawn throughout each board.

Quarter sawn white oak has a long tradition of use in both furniture and in flooring. Despite those limitations because vermont plank flooring maintains relationships with owners of only the finest woodlots and harvests only fully mature white oaks we are still able to produce quarter sawn and rift sawn planks up to 12 inches wide and 16 feet in length. The narrower widths have a unique mix of plainsawn and rift quarter sawn. Our product line is comprised of rough sawn boards skip planed boards veneer and wide plank flooring.

The wider the plank the more these unique characteristics are displayed. Quarter sawn white oak flooring makes for an exceptionally durable and beautiful plank floor. You can choose from three different styles of white oak boards plain flat sawn on which we ll focus here and rift sawn and quarter sawn. This produces a straight striped grain and creates distinctive ray and fleck patterns in red and white oak.

We have a limited inventory of crotch and flame feathered boards curly oak as well as burl. They don t have the classic plain sawn in the center like the wider planks. We can provide s2s s3s s4s and sanding services as well. Their favorite attribute was the outstandingly wide and remarkably long boards which minimized the number of seams and enhanced the scale of the large spaces.

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