Sentences with phrase «grain direction»

This adds to the floor's stability, as the various grain directions help the floor resist the expansion and contraction that occurs when temperatures change.

The Molen table uses traditional, joinery techniques — legs dovetailed in the table top, the panels integrated with breadboard tenons allowing the solid timber to expand and contract, and mortises and tenons for the underlying rails — to provide interest by changes in grain direction and exposing end grain.»

The boards incorporate the full range of log's characteristics resulting in a unique mix of clear & natural grades with grain direction varying from plain sawn to rift & Quarter Sawn.

If so, would you recommend taping off each area of different grain direction and brushing on in the same direction?

«Careful attention was especially paid to the grain direction, texture and even the aroma of genuine wood to look and feel as if the whole instrument panel and console were cut out of a single Japanese cedar tree,» Nissan says.

The grain direction follows the width of the table, emphasising the solidity of the wood and giving the table a contemporary feel.