Patent ID: 8186399

Claim:
A method comprising: introducing a floor board into a machining device, the floor board having a major surface of natural wood that is rectangular in shape, and a pair of long side surfaces provided with tongue and groove features for the side-to-side connection of two of such floor boards; selecting a texturing pattern from a plurality of stored texturing patterns; machining the selected texturing pattern into the major surface of the floor board, the texturing pattern including texture marks that extend in a longitudinal direction of the major surface, wherein the tongue and groove features are formed by a separate milling operation that is performed prior to machining the selected texturing pattern; and after the machining, applying at least one synthetic layer on top of the major surface, the synthetic layer being a lacquer filled with abrasion resistant particles, wherein the texture marks remain visible and palpable when the at least one synthetic layer has been applied.