Our most valuable oak suitable for the widest variety of uses. Its range extends from Maine to Minnesota and south to Texas and Florida. Attains a diameter of eight feet and height of 150 feet, but the average is much smaller. Wood used for shipbuilding, interior finish, flooring, furniture, cabinets, tight cooperage, railroad ties and fuel. Quartered oak is identical with plain- sawed oak except that the lumber is sawed parallel to the radius instead of on a tangent to the annual rings.

Locations: (explanation)

• 124-2, 128-2: Quarter-sawed: Quartered oak is identical with plain- sawed oak except as to figure. This figure is brought by sawing parallel to the radius instead of tangentially, which later produces plain or flat-grain oak. The "islands" are the thick rays. Called quartered oak because originally many logs were first quartered after which each quarter was sawn separately to produce the largest volume of quartered material. Quartered oak involves more waste. It brings higher prices than plain-sawn oak. Quartered oak is more highly prized than plain oak since the boards are less likely to warp and shrink less in width than plain-sawed boards. Especially prized for furniture, trim, cabinets, flooring and tight cooperage.
  
• 124-3, 128-1: Plain-sawn or tangential grain