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chris del
07-11-2006, 8:58 AM
A cabinet maker friend of mine gave me a 8' piece of what he is calling curly red oak..... It does have some flecks on the side and open capillaries like red oak does but I am doubting that it is in fact oak.....
Can anyone confirm what this actually is?
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i309/pickeringwoodworker/Picture532.jpg
chris del
07-11-2006, 8:59 AM
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i309/pickeringwoodworker/Picture531.jpg
Marty Walsh
07-11-2006, 9:09 AM
Chris,
Looks like Curly Oak to me. I've used quite a bit of that in furniture. Here's a table made mostly from it:
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I've always used some form of oil finish on it, since it seems to accentuate the wild grain.
- Marty -
Hank Knight
07-11-2006, 9:46 AM
Chris,
On the back cover of this month's Woodwork magazine is a photograph of beautiful curly oak breakfront made by Hank Gilpin. It looks very much like the wood in your photographs.
Hank
tod evans
07-11-2006, 9:55 AM
yup, looks like curly oak....02 tod
Jim Becker
07-11-2006, 9:56 AM
Just about any species can be "curly" given the right conditions. I agree...it looks like curly oak to me, too. This is not as common, but wonderful stuff!
Wes Bischel
07-11-2006, 10:08 AM
Chris,
I did a weather station a while back with a bit of curly oak I found at the Borg. I resawed it to get the most out of it. The grain was really wild and took a bit of finesse to plane and work without tearout.
Looks like a nice piece - have fun with it!
Wes
Peter Pedisich
07-11-2006, 10:11 AM
Nice weather station!
That curly oak looks neat.
Pete
Bob Marino
07-11-2006, 10:33 AM
I agree with the others - it's curly oak - beautiful stuff too!
Bob
chris del
07-11-2006, 10:37 AM
Thanks to all for confirming what I have is curly oak.....
I only have one 3" x 96" piece, but it is very consistant.....
Now all I have to do is figure out a nice small project to use it on.....
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