All the following photographs are from the same piece of timber, seasoned, sawn, and freshly sanded before photographs were taken. The source was the trunk of a London plane tree.
Quarter-sawn face, showing the attractive figure. Approximately 20cm long by 11cm wide.
Sawn timber, showing a much finer and less prominent figure than the previous section, approximately 20cm long by 11cm wide.
Plain-sawn timber, approximately 20 cm long by 9cm wide.
End grain, about 12cm by 9m, showing some seasoning splits. The sections from which the other photographs are taken can be seen here. The first and second photographs represent the bottom and top edges respectively of this cut, the plain-sawn one is from the right edge.
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6-Jan-2007