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After starting a blog on Hayley's glass, metal and jewelry, envisionsf, we have decided to put one together for us. It took much ado to finally settle on a name. You won't believe how impossible it is to find one that's still available!

Riftsawn! For those of you who are not woodworkers, you may never have heard of riftsawn. There are a variety of ways a piece of lumber can be cut from a log of wood - plainsawn, quartersawn, and riftsawn. Furniture made out of riftsawn lumber has a uniform appearance due to the similarity of grain patterns among different boards. Unfortunately due to the poor yield of the rift-sawing method with its many wedge-shaped scraps, most lumber is either plainsawn or quartersawn. The following diagram illustrates the cross section of a riftsawn log.