The sapwood is light colored and the heartwood is light to dark brown.
Tight grain hardwood.
12 harder than red oak.
Minimal grain extremely tight color range in highest grades.
That s why white oak works so well for whiskey barrels and outdoor furniture.
White oak on the other hand has such a tight cell structure that water can t pass.
When close grained wood is cut into lumber it has the appeal of being smooth and without the irregular characteristics of wide grained woods.
Ambers slightly with exposure to light.
Creamy white in highest grade.
Close grained wood also called fine grained wood is any wood in which the annual rings in the wood are tight or close.
Used where minimal grain or pattern is desired.
Its tight grain and hardness makes it a popular wood for gymnasium floors cutting boards and the heels of women s shoes.
Difficult to stain evenly.
Wide variation in lower grades.
Hickory carya spp the first strictly american hardwood species since it survived the glacial epoch some 50 million years ago.
White oak is mostly straight grained with a medium to coarse texture with longer rays than red oak.
A clean and contemporary hardwood floor.
Analyzing wood species grain and sawing methods here s a long and complex but very informative thread that starts off with a wood identification problem moves into a discussion of wood pore structure and then takes off on an interesting tangent about quartersawing flatsawing and other methods for piecing out a log.