Quarter Sawn Teak

Tommy Chen Inspecting a Teak Log

Tommy Chen and I had an interesting discussion today about the teak he used. The trees were generally over 100 years old, some even approached three hundred years. He knows, he counted the rings! All his teak was quarter sawn. This minimizes the amount of softwood (i.e. the summer growth) exposed in any one place. It's the missing softwood that can give decks that wavy look.