Figure (wood)

In wood, figure refers to the general appearance of wood, as seen on a longitudinal surface (side-grain), either in the tangential or the radial surfaces.

Mountain ash floor, showing some fiddleback figure

Description

Typically figured red gum table

In wood, figure refers to the appearance of wood, as seen on a longitudinal surface (side-grain). A figured wood is not plain.

Birdseye figure in Northern Sugar Maple lumber boards

The figure of a particular piece of wood is, in part, due to its grain and, in part, due to the cut, or to innate properties of the wood.[1]

Types

A few of the tropical hardwoods, like the rosewoods, may have a unique figure. Types of figure include:

References

  1. ↑ Marschner, Stephen R.; Westin, Stephen H.; Arbree, Adam; Moon, Jonathan T. (2005). Measuring and modeling the appearance of finished wood. ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Papers. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 727–734. doi:10.1145/1073204.1073254.
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