More about the Carlisle difference in rift-sawn and quarter-sawn cuts

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  • Christine Halvorson

The other day in our blog article Cut it like a pie or like a loaf of bread? , we told you how Quarter-Sawn Oak produced a more stable floor board, in addition to an interesting pattern in the wood.  What we didn’t say was that Carlisle’s version of Quarter-Sawn varies considerably from the usual.  The National Wood Flooring Association states that Quarter Sawn boards are any boards sawn at a 45 to 90 degree cut. The Carlisle difference is that we always cut between 60 to 90 degrees.  This results, according to our own Shanon Sterrett, in a more cohesive look to the finished floor.  And this isn’t the only difference. With Carlisle Quartersawn White Oak, you will see a difference and improvement in color, lengths up to 12- to 14-feet and, of course, our custom milling.

We can get a little more techinical about it in this document—Rift-PLain-Quarter_Sawn_Diagram.doc—which shows the various ways an Oak tree trunk can be cut—Rift, Quarter-Sawn, Plain-Sawn—and the various differences each technique will provide.

The photo above shows a rift-and-quarter sawn floor from Carlisle.

Posted on Sep 20, 2010 AT 10:45 PM in Hardwood Flooring • (0) Comments

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