S4s boards for retail programs.
Tight grained hardwood board.
Western red cedar clears.
Dust the surface and apply your water based primer stain or clear coat.
Our sales representatives can assist you in determining the board footage needed for your job.
This determines whether or not the surface requires application of a filler to get a smoother finish.
Always sand in the direction of the grain of the wood never diagonally or across it at right angles.
This type of wood is food safe which makes it ideal for use in the kitchen.
Western red cedar sound tight knot.
How to achieve a rich dark hardwood finish producing deep rich hardwood finishes is possible by performing a two step staining process.
Hardwoods make the best cutting boards.
Technically speaking when we talk about wood grain we refer to the direction of the wood fibers.
This special type of closed grain hardwood measures an impressive 1 300 lbf on the janka hardness scale.
When wood finishers refer to a hardwood as open grained or close grained they re talking about the relative size of the pores.
However the terms are used to describe both and are no longer exclusive.
Close grained wood has tightly packed fibers with tight pores whereas open grain wood has larger pores.
Quarter sawing is the method of milling boards by first cutting a log lengthwise into quarters and milling from the center out keeping the grain angle between 60 and 90 degrees.
Measuring 1 300 lbf on the hardness scale this food safe closed grained hardwood is non damaging to knives and offers stellar scratch and impact resistance outdone only by hard maple.
Ironwood gourmet plays with the natural textures of the woods to create beautiful cutting boards such as an end grain board with an edge grain frame and juice groove or a patchwork board combining both end and edge grains.
This method creates boards with greater stability than flat sawn wood and often displays straight grain with distinct ray flecks showing in certain species.
Vertical grain douglas fir clears.
Growing climates and soil conditions vary greatly in the usa.
Close grained wood makes good cutting boards because it does not readily absorb water.
Hardwood lumber is cut to maximize the yield of the log and with the result being a random width product.