This corroborates the anatomy-to-yield chain, but the numerical comparison and cost explanation remain attributed commercial testimony.
This follows the page’s tyloses-to-sawing explanation and supplies the manufacturing-yield consequence.
Bouchard states that sawing American oak into staves lets coopers use more than twice as much wood from each log and presents the smaller split-stave yield as a major reason French oak barrels cost more.
End of answer
Final sentence of the split-versus-quarter-sawn answer
What is the difference between split vs. quarter-sawn wood?
Sawing-to-yield statement, “over twice” magnitude, per-log basis, and adjacent cost explanation checked on 2026-08-26.
Passage
Bouchard states that sawing American oak into staves lets coopers use more than twice as much wood from each log and presents the smaller split-stave yield as a major reason French oak barrels cost more.
Provenance
- Source: No access
- Section: What is the difference between split vs. quarter-sawn wood?
- Locator: final sentence of the answer
- Type: Paraphrase
- Verification: sawing-to-yield statement, “over twice” magnitude, per-log basis, and adjacent cost explanation checked on 2026-08-26.
Context and annotation
This follows the page’s tyloses-to-sawing explanation and supplies the manufacturing-yield consequence. The causal link is independently corroborative; the numerical comparison and cost explanation remain attributed commercial testimony.