Description
Face Veneer Grading
Description | AB Grade | |
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Moisture Content | 8% +/- 1% | |
Blue Stain / Black Stain | Minimal allowed | |
Pitch/Mineral Streak | Occasional allowed | |
Open End Split | Not allowed | |
Filled End Split | Permit occasional | |
Sound Knot | Allowed: Max 20mm diameter | |
Knot Clusters | Allowed | |
Dead Knot | Occasional up to 10mm – filled if necessary. Permits small pin knots unfilled |
Crack | Allowed: max 2mm putty filled | |
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Sap Wood | Allowed: up to 35% of face | |
Color Contrast | Allowed minimal | |
Worm Hole | Occasionally allowed -Treated and putty filled | |
Crack in Sound Knot | Putty Filled | |
Rot | Not allowed | |
Rot / Residual Colour | Little allowed |