NALT

Preferred term

quarter-sawn wood

Topic

Lumber that has been sawed so that the wide surfaces extend approximately at right angles to the annual growth rings. Lumber is considered edge grained when the rings form an angle of 45 degrees to 90 degrees with the wide surface of the piece.

grain and figure

edge-grained wood
quarter-sawn lumber
quarter-sawn timber
vertical-grained wood

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

90015

Spanish

madera rameada

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/314650

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Created 3/7/18, last modified 11/14/18