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Doesn't the orientation and placement of the cut for each piece of wood have a huge impact on strength? If you've got a quarter sawn piece from heartwood you're
by iandanforth 5y ago
Doesn't the orientation and placement of the cut for each piece of wood have a huge impact on strength? If you've got a quarter sawn piece from heartwood you're going to get very different mechanical properties than plane or rift sawn sapwood. This and the orientation of the pieces in the tester doesn't seem to have made it into the post or the data sheet.
- johnwalkr 5y agoFrom the pictures and by conventions of woodworking, these samples all seem to have the wood grain aligned to the major axis. They are also free of knots. It would be interesting to see, at least for a few species, how the placement of cut affects the results.