http://www.popularwoodworking.com/techniques/understanding-wood-four-structure-types Woodworking advice, woodworking plans, woodworking projects and woodworking blogs Sun, 19 May 2013 01:36:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.popularwoodworking.com/techniques/understanding-wood-four-structure-types/comment-page-1#comment-71545 cocobolo Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:00:37 +0000 http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=256609#comment-71545 Tom,
The image of non-porous wood taken from Hoadley’s book, while an accurate one, is a tangential section from a conifer, not a cross-section as shown for the ring porous, semi-diffuse porous, and diffuse porous woods. The lay woodworker is getting an incorrect view of what non-porous woods look like.
Sterling Sam, Professor of Botany/Instructor of Wood Technology

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