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Riving is still used for producing timber that needs to have perfectly straight grain with minimal runout, most notably the tops of acoustic guitars. The differ
by jdietrich 8y ago
Riving is still used for producing timber that needs to have perfectly straight grain with minimal runout, most notably the tops of acoustic guitars. The difference in stiffness between a rived and sawn top can be drastic, with commensurate benefits in tone.
http://www.lutherie.net/frankford.runout.html http://www.lutherie.net/frankford.runout.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EpVIEyYiSs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EpVIEyYiSs
- logfromblammo 8y agoAlso, baseball bats.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoAlso for the production of English long bows for hundreds, possibly thousands, of years. They carefully included heartwood for the front and sapwood for the rear of the bow. That gave the bow the most strength and benefits of a modern laminate bow in a single piece of wood.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoWood roofing shakes are riven.
- wott 8y agoAnd wine barrels.
- AngryData 8y agoIt is also important for making straight arrows that don't warp or shatter either, especially in the olden days when arrows were made by hand and thus very expensive/time consuming.