Tight Grain Hardwood

Minimal grain extremely tight color range in highest grades.

Tight grain hardwood.

A clean and contemporary hardwood floor. Creamy white in highest grade. Ambers slightly with exposure to light. White oak on the other hand has such a tight cell structure that water can t pass.

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. 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. Difficult to stain evenly.

Its tight grain and hardness makes it a popular wood for gymnasium floors cutting boards and the heels of women s shoes. When close grained wood is cut into lumber it has the appeal of being smooth and without the irregular characteristics of wide grained woods. 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.

Contemporary minimalist or modern. 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. White oak is mostly straight grained with a medium to coarse texture with longer rays than red oak.