Red vs White Oak – WOOD magazine
Red vs White Oak – WOOD magazine
If you are planning on doing an outdoor project that will be exposed to moisture, choose white oak over red oak. WOOD magazine’s Jim Heavey explains the differences and why white oak is the better choice.
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Thanks for sharing that
Excellent video. Made it very easy to understand the differences.
Just built myself a new night stand and had a piece of red oak sitting around. My night stand is made out of just sanded 3/4" plywood, and some bits of pine and a few (white oak I think) hard wood dowels as "accent pieces"!! I had considered using pine molding as edge banding, I have used that technique before on a desk I built and a lot of people complimented me on its build thinking I bought the piece from a store! BUT this time I didn’t have the cash for the molding and like I say I had the red oak just kicking around my shop anyhow!! The board of red oak I have is already 3/4" thick anyway, so I just needed to cut strips off of it to use as my edge banding! I cut the strips down to just a half inch thick off the edge of the board and then glued as well as nailed the strips over the plywood edges. After the glue set I rounded over the edges with light sanding, and I had mitered all the joints at the corners anyhow to give the banding a better look prior to gluing and nailing the pieces into place. And after it was all rounded over, then I puttied the nail heads, sanded it once more then stained it all with Min-wax One Step stain and urethane!! The short story is the piece came out looking BETTER than my original desk…..and next time I make a piece of furniture, I am going to add more red oak as "detail pieces" to compliment the pine!!
Thank You Sir!!!! Great Demo!!! Much Appreciated!!! 👊👍😎
“…you’re probably gonna blow it…”‘. I see what you did there at the end –
Jim just bubbles with enthusiasm!
Great explanation. Thank you
wow good information thanks for that
WOW, can`t say much more.
Which is why all the old sailing ships were made of white oak.
I use vacuum to saturate and seal the open cells in Red oak.
Oak of any kind is not a good pick of wood outdoors. It all rots very easy if damp or wet or with ground contact. Many better species to use.
does bigger pore mean higher hygroscopic percentage?
Good information. Thanks.
This is the best explanation video by so far. Thanks❤😊
That is a fantastic display I have never seen. Thank you for that!
Great Demostration fact best I’ve seen. Thank yu!
Best tip ever!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
excellent info. thanks for sharing!
My left or your left?
Red oak would make great insulator, as long as it isn’t exposed to the elements, because it can hold far more air in it. And you could cover it with Polyerthyne for great protection.
Awesome and funny!
good demo thanks
Hey
Awesome information. Thanks
I knew he was going to blow into the wood. I didn’t know he was going to fart when he was blowing into the White oak @ ~
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Wow, I never knew that about red oak. Genius! Brilliant demo
Wow, that visually helped so much. Thank you.
Great video. We need more videos like this!
Thanks for the knowledge, Sir !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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