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Ok, Now I Am Confused
All right, what is this?
Old wood flooring from my house, using a few pieces I cut out to do some old floor register patching and making a few other things from it. I thought it was doug fir, now I am not so sure.
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Re: Ok, Now I Am Confused
My monitor color sucks, but
it looks like white oak from here. Rub a little oil on it, see what it looks like then?
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I orginally thought it was doug fir. It didn't smell like oak, and the shavings look like a pile of Fir but, I guess I have not seen wormy Fir. Possibility of Chestnut?
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10-24-2009, 02:35 PM
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Re: Ok, Now I Am Confused
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Re: Ok, Now I Am Confused
I'm with Neo, white oak is first thought.
Is there any hint to medullary rays? Fir is out because of the open grain.
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Re: Ok, Now I Am Confused
I'm with Neo on this one. Looks like vertical grain oak.
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You mean all the pretty stuff you get when you quarter saw white oak? No, this stuff is just wormy.
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You are right about the verticle grain, I wanted it for what I was making. I am telling you, I know what oak smells like when you cut, it burns my nose a bit, this didn't.
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Re: Ok, Now I Am Confused
I found this about identifying Chestnut, could be. Lokk hard at the end grain one.
  
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Re: Ok, Now I Am Confused
Pretty sure it's white oak as well.
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I was just looking at that last picture on another site. That is a picture of oak right? These boards do not have that visible ray. All I can see is the early wood pores, my eye can not see the rays.
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Re: Ok, Now I Am Confused
This is rift cut white oak, no stain, flat finish. Still the most probable choice.
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Re: Ok, Now I Am Confused
maybe I'm out on a limb, but could it be red oak? again, you have the advantage of seeing it in person, but from the picture, I'd put money on oak of some kind.
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Beech?
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Re: Ok, Now I Am Confused
The smell of reclaimed wood is often different than new lumber. Especially when just trimming the ends.
What are we trying to do here anyway?
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Re: Ok, Now I Am Confused
Can you get a better lit, in focus shot
of the end grain? From what you say it could be chestnut, but I haven't seen that much quarter sawn.
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Re: Ok, Now I Am Confused
Looks like wormy chesnut to me, my parents front door looks identical to that.
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