Tight Grain Hardwood

Difficult to stain evenly.

Tight grain hardwood.

White oak on the other hand has such a tight cell structure that water can t pass. Contemporary minimalist or modern. Creamy white in highest grade. The sapwood is light colored and the heartwood is light to dark brown.

Ambers slightly with exposure to light. White oak is mostly straight grained with a medium to coarse texture with longer rays than red oak. 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. Hickory carya spp the first strictly american hardwood species since it survived the glacial epoch some 50 million years ago.

Wide variation in lower grades. That s why white oak works so well for whiskey barrels and outdoor furniture. A clean and contemporary hardwood floor. Lignum vitae a hardwood native to the west indies has the finest grain of any wood known and an ironlike density.

Close grained wood also called fine grained wood is any wood in which the annual rings in the wood are tight or close. 12 harder than red oak. 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.