in the perpendicular e g cross oriented direction osb has advantages for stiffness and rigidity across supports in such applications as roof sheathing or sub flooring additionally it should be appreciated that osb is a subset of waferboard in that osb is made out of strands which are a subset of wafers it should be appreciated that in the below outlined exemplary embodiments while the description focuses on osb panels in various exemplary embodiments the osb panels may be replaced with any other mat formed panels the use of osb panels in the following detailed descriptions of certain exemplary embodiments is for simplifying the explanation and is not intended to be limiting in any way fig1 4 and 7 are a plan view a plan black and white photograph and a plan color photograph of a portion of the top surface or face of a standard unaltered osb panel 100 as shown in fig1 4 and 7 the unaltered osb panel 100 has a top surface or face 112 that includes multiple strands 102 of varying length and approximately uniform width and thickness the osb panel 100 is constructed using directionally oriented strands 102 of wood as opposed to directionally randomly oriented or arranged wood particles wafers or chips and includes individual layers of wood strands 102 that each have a generally uniform thickness more specifically during manufacture of each layer.