You probably won't find it at a lumber yard. It is available in PA at specialty sawmills with their own kilns. I have some that is at least 20 years aged. Most wide boards have a good deal of quartersawn wood.

thanks baymee.

Look under wholesale lumber. You want a supply house that supplies cabinet shops. Or call and ask a cabinet shop where they purchase lumber. Quatersaw is how the board is cut, not the size of the board. You can cut a log a number of ways and how determines the "look". Rotary, riff, qtrsaw all are different types of cuts.

I love qtrsaw white oak, typical shaker style furniture.
If you have questions on cabinet construct feel free to EMail me, I owned a cabinet shop for 30 years, I have sawdust in my veins!

Good Luck and enjoy your new kitchen !

Tom is correct, of course, however quartersawn wood exists in all center cut wide boards on either side of the pith. The sawyer has techniques to obtain maximum quartersawn wood from a good log by resawing quartered logs.

I started buying oak in 1976 at the local Mennonite sawmill. They made money, in the winter break from farming, this way. I only bought clear red oak. It was an exorbitant .80 cents a board foot and much of it was 12 to 18 inches wide center cut with lots of "quartersawn" which made beautiful furniture.

I'm not sure if they have quartersawn in stock, but there is a lumber place called Suburban Mills on Long Island. You can send them an E-Mail inquiring.

Here is a link that might be useful: Suburban Mills

Thank you for all your helpfull replies. After doing some research, we have decided on shaker cabinets with white QSO.
bhrost... That Surburban Mills in not far from us. I am going to call them tomorrow.
Tom999, thanks for your generous offer, I may just take you up on it. :)
Joann

I dont mean to ask a stupid question but what is quartersawn mean?

Quartersawn means that the face of the board would be roughly radial, or oriented along a radial plane going from the centerline of the tree out towards the bark.

The term comes from the way the tree is cut to yield such lumber. Imagine the round cross-section of a tree. If you cut that round into four equal pie-shaped wedges, or "quarters", then sawed each wedge into boards roughly perpendicular to the bark, you'd have quartersawn lumber.

The wood is desireable for its characteristic appearance and also because it's more dimensionally stable than lumber cut in other ways. Cutting it this way generates a lot of waste, though, so it's considerably more expensive.