quarter-sawn

French translation: scié sur quartier / coupé sur quartier

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English term or phrase:	quarter-sawn
French translation:	scié sur quartier / coupé sur quartier
Entered by:	adamk

15:28 Dec 7, 2009

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Tech/Engineering - Forestry / Wood / Timber

English term or phrase: quarter-sawn

What is the term for this in French?

As in the wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_sawing

Quarter sawing is a process of sawing logs into boards, a method that produces quartersawn and riftsawn boards.

Quartersawn boards have two advantages:

Their stability against warping with changes in moisture.

Shrinkage stills occurs, but is less troublesome.

The decorative effect, although this depends on the timber species. Quarter sawn oak shows a prominent ray fleck. Quarter sawn sapele is likely to produce a
ribbon figure.

To a lesser degree this also applies to riftsawn boards.[citation needed]

Rather than feeding a log into a mill for rift sawn and merely shifting the blade position a little after each board, the whole log must first be quartered (hence the name), then each quarter is sawn separately. The best quarter sawing pattern takes a single slice off each face of the quarter, rotating it between cuts. This is obviously a lengthy process, so a common compromise is to rift saw throughout each quarter, but at 45° to the faces.
Quartersawn boards can also be produced by other methods.

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scié sur quartier

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coupé sur quartier

Explanation:
La coupe sur quartier signifie que le bois est coupé de l'écorce vers le centre avec un trait de scie perpendiculaire aux anneaux.

http://www.alain-queguiner.com/presse2.html

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