Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
You're right of course SS. I was thinking of a reply but your last sentence really does sum it up. A GOOD example of this was a friend wanted to replace some oak flooring. Took some large sections to the carpenters shop nearby to have it cut into planks and then into the flooring sections. When it came back it didn't even remotely match what he'd laid earlier. Because they'd sawn and planed the wood from the same original trunk section but using a different 'cut'.......
And multiply that consternation with the different types of woods within a species -- white or red birch? white or red oak or English brown oak? or African or Honduran Mahogany (Philippine mahogany is not a real mahogany), etc. -- and then the woodworker will typically quarter-saw a plank leaving a tight grain while the carpenter will live-saw a plank getting the widest board possible, with two totally different appearances. No wonder the amateur woodworker can get confused.