Figure (wood)
In wood, figure refers to the appearance of wood, as seen on a longitudinal surface (side-grain).
Mountain ash floor, showing some fiddleback figure
Description
Typically figured red gum table
Birdseye figure in Northern Sugar Maple lumber boards
In wood, figure refers to the appearance of wood, as seen on a longitudinal surface (side-grain). A figured wood is not plain.
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.
Types
A few of the tropical hardwoods, like the rosewoods, may have a unique figure. Types of figure include:
- angel step
- bear scratches
- bird's eye
- blister
- burl
- curl
- ribbon curl
- dimple
- fiddleback
- flame
- wide flame
- ghost
- pin stripe
- quilted
- spalted
- tiger stripe
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