Quarter Sawing

[Russ]

I have about 1500 ft  10-14 inch dia cherry,      any advantage to quarter sawing it ? How about ash ? I quarter sawed some white pine , besides being ugly the knots weakened the boards. Quarter sawing the oak made beauitiful lumber.

[Buzz-sawyer]

i would recomend against quartering the cherry..it looks much better flat sawn.imo ;)

[Russ]

Thanks, thats what I've done  in the past, trying to even out the sap wood on the sides. These are big enough I could problably get some six inch wide quarter sawn out of a few of  them.

[Buzz-sawyer]

Yep, but who wants q sawn cherry?? It is a bit more stable BUT thats not as important as the lost wood and inferior appearance...Why do you want to quarter??
I have never quartered ash...but I bet it would still look staight grained and white ;)

[Tom]

Russ,
Flat sawn cherry has all the figure. 
The grain of quarter sawed  is non-descript.

I seldom produce cherry with vertical grain.  I quarter sawed some deliberately one time for a gun stock and I've bastard sawed some for spindles and legs, but, most all is flat sawed with the biggest concern getting the most lumber from around the heart checks.

[clif]

Hi!!  I was going to Qsaw some Birch tomorrow for flooring to see if it still has character.  I like flatsawn, but is it stable enough?

[Patty]

We have flat sawn cherry flooring. It works just fine.  ;)

[maple flats]

I just flat sawed some cherry today that had been on the forest floor about 10 years. Lost about 2" around most of it, a little more lost on bottom but rest looks surprisingly good. Nice figured stuff. Still got some more to do next time I saw, hope that looks as good.  I cut some for gun stock blanks and the rest into 1" boards. Will air dry it then sell. 8)

[Russ]

That makes it easy, flat saw the boards, and quarter saw some 2" in case he wants some legs or something. Still not sure what to do with the ash. I think he wants mostly 5/quarter boards.

[MrMoo]

I quarter sawed some ash last sumer. The grain was very straight and the wodd still white and no figure. The boards are very stable however. I just brought them inside and checked them with a straight edge and I found them to be nice & flat.
Some of these boards were sold to make oars for a canoe & being quarter sawed was desirable for that. I also plan to use some of it for handles on tools.