Chestnut or rock oak

[4430jd]

 I have alot of chestnut oak,is there any advantage quarter sawing the larger trees.

[Red Clay Hound]

Chestnut Oak is a variety of white oak.  It is a very desirable wood for quartersawing!

[Ironwood]

I dont know for sure, but generally if it isnt white oak the fleck/ray are shorter and look more like Lacewood (an import) which still has fleck/ray just very short, still neat just in it's own right. Pin oak is certainly shorter, but that is a red....

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Ironwood

[WDH]

I would not hesitate to quartersaw it.

[scsmith42]

Definitely quarter saw the larger diameter logs; chestnut oak is one of my favorite white oak species.

Keep in mind that it is one of the few species of white oak that is open pored, so it is not well suited for outdoor applications.

[WDH]

Few to no tyloses  .

[Tom L]

I quarter sawed a bunch of chestnut oak last month, and the ray flecking was really nice.
very nice wood to saw. it looked great when finished

[learner]

Okay gentlemen what am I missing here?  I've done the math and viewed so many quarter saw videos that my brain is hurting.  And no matter How you do it, you're allways sawing horizontally to the pith from one side of the log or the other.
I mean you allways have to saw flat to get square edges on a circular object.  Even flat sawing you are getting quarter sawn wood at some point.  So where am I not understanding?

[WDH]

You can make the log an octagon and not square.  That gives you clamping surfaces so that you can orient the rings in the cant perfectly to get the perfect quartersawn pattern.