It is suitable for many small articles where a hard, even-grained wood is wanted.
When straight-grained wood is wanted, as when it is for tool handles and oars, logs without crooks are selected.
These die for lack of sun and air, and the trunk covers their stubs with layers of straight-grained wood.
Trees of slow growth usually have fine-grained wood, though the rule is not universal.
Trees, with smooth close bark, hard strong close-grained wood, elongated conic buds covered by numerous imbricated scales, the inner lengthening after the opening of the buds.
Curly grain" refers to the figure of circlets and islets and contours, often of great beauty, caused by cutting a flat surface in crooked-grained wood.
Straight-grained wood is much easier to split than cross-grained wood in which the fibers are interlaced, and soft wood, provided it is elastic, splits easier than hard.
It should be of strong, elastic, straight-grained wood, free from bad knots or defects, as the strain upon it is great.
Select a piece of straight-grained wood,--white pine or any wood easy to work.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grained wood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
