Tight Grain Hardwood

Its tight grain and hardness makes it a popular wood for gymnasium floors cutting boards and the heels of women s shoes.

Tight grain hardwood. The sapwood is light colored and the heartwood is light to dark brown. Used where minimal grain or pattern is desired. Difficult to stain evenly. Close grained wood also called fine grained wood is any wood in which the annual rings in the wood are tight or close.

That s why white oak works so well for whiskey barrels and outdoor furniture. 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. Contemporary minimalist or modern. A clean and contemporary hardwood floor.

Creamy white in highest grade. Hickory carya spp the first strictly american hardwood species since it survived the glacial epoch some 50 million years ago. White oak plywood has a tight grain and is a different species than red oak. White oak on the other hand has such a tight cell structure that water can t pass.

Ambers slightly with exposure to light. White oak is mostly straight grained with a medium to coarse texture with longer rays than red oak. Lignum vitae a hardwood native to the west indies has the finest grain of any wood known and an ironlike density. Wide variation in lower grades.