Maarten van de Voort

What is quarter sawn oak? Watch in under a minute how the ray flecks appear and how it differs from rift sawn and plain sawn oak, explained by a timber merchant.

A worm hole in European oak (floor, beam or table) is usually no disaster. When you should look closer, and why we used to drill the holes ourselves.

A poem found on a tree in Portugal, about what wood means to us — from the hearth and the table to the cradle and the coffin. Shared by Maarten.