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.
Wide variation in lower grades.
Close grained wood also called fine grained wood is any wood in which the annual rings in the wood are tight or close.
Used where minimal grain or pattern is desired.
That s why white oak works so well for whiskey barrels and outdoor furniture.
Hickory carya spp the first strictly american hardwood species since it survived the glacial epoch some 50 million years ago.
12 harder than red oak.
Creamy white in highest grade.
Difficult to stain evenly.
The sapwood is light colored and the heartwood is light to dark brown.
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.
Lignum vitae a hardwood native to the west indies has the finest grain of any wood known and an ironlike density.
Minimal grain extremely tight color range in highest grades.
A clean and contemporary hardwood floor.
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.