There may be gold inside...

[Dave Mills]

This morning I was rummaging the scrap bin for a small piece of white oak. I found this chunk which would have been completely adequate. It was about 1" thick and rift cut, and since I only needed 5/8" I thought I'd resaw it to quartersawn to try to get some nice grain. What a nice find! I think I may do this more often.

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[Alan Schwabacher]

Looks good! For small pieces that can be handy.

Note that if you need it thicker, you can make one cut to expose the quartersawn face, swap the pieces and glue the original faces together.

[Brian Tymchak]

I've used the same technique to get rift sawn from 8/4 flat sawn.

[Bill Dufour]

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/10/gold-trees-may-hint-buried-treasure

[Bill Dufour]

For this one they even hid diamonds up in crotches of the trees!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Diamond_Hoax