Curly Oak???? (PICS)

[chris del]

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]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i309/pickeringwoodworker/Picture531.jpg

[Marty Walsh]

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]

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]

yup, looks like curly oak....02 tod

[Jim Becker]

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]

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]

Nice weather station!

That curly oak looks neat.

Pete

[Bob Marino]

I agree with the others - it's curly oak - beautiful stuff too!

Bob

[chris del]

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.....