When buying spruce it is a good idea to communicate your priorities, there are a variety of opinions about what is important. If narrow grain spacing and creamy color are what’s important to the buyer, they should ask for it. Other factors one might ask for include fiber alignment, degree of quartersawn, cross grain stiffness, relative weight, Q, and the degree to which the wood “talks” to the handler. Assessing these and other factors are what makes true “mastergrade” wood, and perhaps not surprisingly, it actually takes a “master” to do it!
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