The thickness of perpend and bed joints varies considerably, and perpend joints do not line up. |
The way the cells are aligned will cause the quarter-sawn board to shrink a little bit in width and very little in thickness. |
First remove several stems about the thickness of a pencil from the shrub and trim them to a length of around 30 cm just below a leaf joint. |
It has all the flavor of a bell pepper packed into a wall with one half the thickness, and none of the wateriness to chew your way through. |
But the predominance and thickness of the sheltering walls recalls the adobe. |
The grey colour of quartz is a mineralogical standard showing that the thickness is correct. |