Timber and Wood Characteristics and Natural Deviations
Timber and Wood Natural Deviations
The terms for the different deviations are:
Straight Grain - the cells run in a straight direction
Diagonal Grain - the cells follow a sloping direction
Interlocked Grain - the layers of wood slope alternately in different directions i.e. slope one way in a series of rings then reverse their slope in the next growth ring.
Ribbon Grain, Stripe Figure, Roe Figure - is alternating dark and light strips in a quartered timber formed by the different reflections of light on the interlocked grain. Figure |
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