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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Grain Direction
In Response To: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Grain Direction (Ken)
I prefer quarter sawn. When viewed from the end, it looks like this:
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I've found the flat sawn rib stock tends to split out "feathers" all over the place. Quarter sawn is stiffer, too.
Messages In This Thread
- Skin-on-Frame: Rib Grain Direction
Ken -- 6/17/2003, 8:48 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Grain Direction
Brian Nystrom -- 6/18/2003, 2:53 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Grain Direction
Travis Kinchen -- 6/18/2003, 1:39 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Grain Direction
West -- 6/17/2003, 11:38 pm - Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Grain Direction
- Re: Skin-on-Frame: Rib Grain Direction
