frostr2001

I am finding it difficult in understanding how to read grain direction and finding an explanation that I can understand. Help please !

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Gene Howe

If the face has a cathedral grain pattern, the grain runs towards the top of the cathedral. If it's a straight grain, take a piece of card stock or a playing card and run the edge at a 90 along the corner of the board edge. One direction will be smooth. the other will likely snag the card.
I sometimes use my bare fingers....NOT recommended.
To complicate matters, some boards will have grain that runs in both directions, like at a knot or where a limb may have grown.

frostr2001

Thanks Gene, that was helpful. It amazes me sometimes when professional editors take three pages in attempt to explain what someone like yourself can give me a better understanding in two sentences !

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