Asking here first, since you all know I'm an idiot. The guys at the Hardwood store don't (or at least they don't let on that they know).
In Denver, I do a lot of my purchases from Paxton. Seems like they carry flatsawn oak and quartersawn.
In the tambouret I just finished, the cathedral grain from the flatsawn boards look pretty ugly (IMHO) on the legs. I think I'd have preferred "flatsawn" stock.
I'm **assuming** that the price of riftsawn is between flat a quartersawn.
If so do I simply ask if they "stock riftsawn"? Or will there be some riftsawn stock in the bin and I simply have to sort through to find it? Or do I "make my own rift" by cutting quartersawn a certain way?