Quarter Sawn Hardwood

Your dream of a beautiful and affordable hardwood floor is possible.

Quarter sawn hardwood. It provides one of the most unique white oak flooring styles. The rift sawn red oak offers a calm straight grained appearance used in many contemporary settings for doors cabinetry flooring and other millwork. Red oak rift quarter sawn wood flooring is a great alternative to white oak. It is also possible to find engineered quarter sawn flooring.

Quarter sawn red oak does exhibit some fleck or medullary ray effect although it is not nearly as pronounced as in white oak. However there is little agreement what exactly that angle is. This means red oak white oak maple walnut and black cherry wood are going to be your most common choices. The resulting lumber can also be called radially sawn or simply quartered.

Our rift and quarter sawn white oak makes for an amazing wood flooring for any residential and commercial space. Most define it as between 60 90 degrees although others define it as between 75 90 degrees or 45 90 degrees.