Gene Davis
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Translation, I think. White oak, rift sawn.
I'm gonna make a sofa table and went down to the city this morning in search of something rift. When I left the house, I was thinking I would like it in either cherry, red oak, or white oak.
Here's a pic of my SU model for the piece. Design by the great Scottish arts-and-crafts-era designer and architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh. A bigger version of this sits in one of the halls in his famous Hill House.
Two of my sources, CS Hardwoods and Austin Hardwoods, have all three but in the rough, which makes it hard to see what you will get, exactly, when surfacing. But the first place I went, Frank Paxton Lumber, has it S3S.
I was in the rooms where you pick your boards, and getting disappointed, when I turned to examine the on-sale bunks they had on large carts. What's this white mahogany, I thought? Picked through some, and while nice, seemed light and soft.
But what a find on the cart next to the white soft stuff! Clear select rift-sawn white oak, S3S, 13/16" and nicely dressed, a bunk of maybe 125 ten-footers, some widths up to 9-1/2 inches. I went through the stack and picked out the five I'll use.
Not bad for $5.95/bf.
Shots of the wood, below.
I'm gonna make a sofa table and went down to the city this morning in search of something rift. When I left the house, I was thinking I would like it in either cherry, red oak, or white oak.
Here's a pic of my SU model for the piece. Design by the great Scottish arts-and-crafts-era designer and architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh. A bigger version of this sits in one of the halls in his famous Hill House.
Two of my sources, CS Hardwoods and Austin Hardwoods, have all three but in the rough, which makes it hard to see what you will get, exactly, when surfacing. But the first place I went, Frank Paxton Lumber, has it S3S.
I was in the rooms where you pick your boards, and getting disappointed, when I turned to examine the on-sale bunks they had on large carts. What's this white mahogany, I thought? Picked through some, and while nice, seemed light and soft.
But what a find on the cart next to the white soft stuff! Clear select rift-sawn white oak, S3S, 13/16" and nicely dressed, a bunk of maybe 125 ten-footers, some widths up to 9-1/2 inches. I went through the stack and picked out the five I'll use.
Not bad for $5.95/bf.
Shots of the wood, below.
