Specify timber the way a furniture maker would — species, how the board was sawn and how it was finished — and see grain that follows every part at its real size.
The grain is generated through the whole part, so edges, chamfers and end faces read correctly without unwrapping or hunting for a seamless texture.
Choose from hardwoods and softwoods including white oak, red oak, ash, black walnut, cherry, hard maple, beech, birch, teak, sapele, wenge, ebony, Scots pine, Douglas fir, larch, western red cedar and yew. Each brings its own ring character, pores and heartwood colour.
Flat-sawn for cathedral arches, quarter-sawn for straight grain with ray fleck, rift-sawn for tight lines, live-sawn, or end grain for ring circles and pore dots. Veneer matching, plank and parquet layouts, and plywood constructions with visible ply edges are there when the component calls for them.
Apply oil, hardwax oil, paste wax, shellac, lacquer, water- or oil-based polyurethane, 2K varnish, French polish or a weathered grey. Tune stain, film build, pore fill, wear and age to match a physical sample.
A simple level keeps the essentials in front of you: seed, scale, wear and age. Open the detailed and expert levels to shape ring width, latewood, heartwood and sapwood, knots, figure such as curly, quilted or birdseye, and machining marks from saws, planers and sanding.
Real-world scale keeps rings and pores at their physical size when a part is resized, and the grain axis follows each part’s longest side automatically. Parts that share a material come from one log, so a set of chair rails looks like it was cut together. New log and Next board draw a fresh piece of timber when the figure lands badly. For close-ups, real surface depth can turn grain, saw marks and ply defects into physical relief.
Assign white oak to the frame, set the legs to quarter-sawn for straight grain and fleck, and give the seat a flat-sawn board so the arches sit across it. A hardwax oil finish gives the satin furniture look; try a darker stain and compare before the maker’s sample arrives.
