| Cherry wood is chosen because it is fine-grained and yet soft enough to allow the cutting. |
| But as high-quality fine-grained wood becomes increasingly expensive, fibreboard is playing a more visible role in interior design. |
| That cold spell, which afflicted Europe in the years leading up to Stradivari's time, would have produced a uniquely fine-grained wood, he said. |
| They build up on sheltered exposures of fine-grained, porous pyrite-bearing rocks, such as shale or bituminous coal, after long dry spells. |
| Slate is a dense, porous, fine-grained rock that has a natural, generally gray-green color. |
| The wood is fine-grained, dense and, because of its natural color, sets off the blued parts nicely. |
