Tight Grain Hardwood

Difficult to stain evenly.

Tight grain hardwood.

When close grained wood is cut into lumber it has the appeal of being smooth and without the irregular characteristics of wide grained woods. Creamy white in highest grade. The sapwood is light colored and the heartwood is light to dark brown. 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.

12 harder than red oak. Wide variation in lower grades. Its tight grain and hardness makes it a popular wood for gymnasium floors cutting boards and the heels of women s shoes. White oak plywood has a tight grain and is a different species than red oak.

White oak is mostly straight grained with a medium to coarse texture with longer rays than red oak. Used where minimal grain or pattern is desired. Close grained wood also called fine grained wood is any wood in which the annual rings in the wood are tight or close. A clean and contemporary hardwood floor.

Hickory carya spp the first strictly american hardwood species since it survived the glacial epoch some 50 million years ago. Minimal grain extremely tight color range in highest grades. That s why white oak works so well for whiskey barrels and outdoor furniture. Lignum vitae a hardwood native to the west indies has the finest grain of any wood known and an ironlike density.