On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:04:53 GMT, patrick conroy
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Can the educated ones assist here please? Is it "quartersawn" or
>"quarter-sawn" or "quarter sawn"? I assume that answer applies to
>flat/plain/rift.
>
>And when I refer to Mahogany or Poplar or White Oak, they should be
>capitalized, right?
>
>Thanks........
A Typical Lumber Order:
175 BF 4/4 FAS QS WO RWL S4S SP 13/16.
Translation:
One Hundred and Seventy Five Board Feet (A Volume Measurement Equal To
144 Cubic Inches Of Unsurfaced Material) of Material That Is One Inch
Thick Prior To Surfacing and is to be of the Firsts And Seconds Grade
(See NHWA specs) and is to be Quartersawn White Oak (See allowed
species for possible inclusions beyond that intended), in Random
Widths and Lengths (Within the parameters of the FAS spec), Surfaced
on Four Sides (See specs for allowable methods of surfacing), and
Thicknessed By Skip Planing (A method of taking material that is
allegedly thick enough to produce the final desired thickness and
stopping the thicknesser when it is set at 13/16", disregarding the
fact that there might be some pieces in there that are thinner than
that)(See NHWA Specs) to no greater than 13/16 of an inch.
BTW - most lumberyard guys don't give a damn about spelling, and many
of them can't count - so you'd better.
Regards,
Tom.
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Got a reference (ideally online) for a summary of the acronyms and format ?
Quick Goggle search on 'haw hardwood' and a couple of other variants didn't
turn up much.
David Merrill
"Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:04:53 GMT, patrick conroy
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Can the educated ones assist here please? Is it "quartersawn" or
> >"quarter-sawn" or "quarter sawn"? I assume that answer applies to
> >flat/plain/rift.
> >
> >And when I refer to Mahogany or Poplar or White Oak, they should be
> >capitalized, right?
> >
> >Thanks........
>
>
> A Typical Lumber Order:
>
> 175 BF 4/4 FAS QS WO RWL S4S SP 13/16.
>
> Translation:
>
> One Hundred and Seventy Five Board Feet (A Volume Measurement Equal To
> 144 Cubic Inches Of Unsurfaced Material) of Material That Is One Inch
> Thick Prior To Surfacing and is to be of the Firsts And Seconds Grade
> (See NHWA specs) and is to be Quartersawn White Oak (See allowed
> species for possible inclusions beyond that intended), in Random
> Widths and Lengths (Within the parameters of the FAS spec), Surfaced
> on Four Sides (See specs for allowable methods of surfacing), and
> Thicknessed By Skip Planing (A method of taking material that is
> allegedly thick enough to produce the final desired thickness and
> stopping the thicknesser when it is set at 13/16", disregarding the
> fact that there might be some pieces in there that are thinner than
> that)(See NHWA Specs) to no greater than 13/16 of an inch.
>
> BTW - most lumberyard guys don't give a damn about spelling, and many
> of them can't count - so you'd better.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Tom.
>
> "People funny. Life a funny thing." Sonny Liston
>
> Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
> tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
> http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (JMWEBER987) wrote:
>quartersawn or quartersawd. Species in zoology and botany are capitalized but
>the names of species are not. So poplar, oak, etc.
Actually, in zoology and botany, genera are capitalized, and species are not,
as in Acer saccharum or Homo sapiens. Common names are never capitalized, as
in sugar maple and human being, respectively.
>Mike in Arkansas who keeps a dictionary handy.
Maybe you should've consulted it before posting. :-) *My* dictionary shows
another 'e' in quartersawed.
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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:42:59 GMT, Unisaw A100 <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>
>And never, ever go in and ask for Ma-Ha-Go-Knee.
<scrunchin up the brow in confusion...>
muh-hog'-uh-knee???
[email protected] (JMWEBER987) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> quartersawn or quartersawd.
In New England: quattersawrn.
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