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N95 is overkill, no?

I found this video inaccurate. White oak is difficult to stain, red oak due to its open pores is always easy to stain. Red oak is not inexpensive.

The term is “full rail” I believe, but stave makes sense I guess. That’s what we call a bow blank around here.

Great informative vid!

Great video! I'm a tree farmer in the midwest and grow white oak (quercus alba) and several different red oak species that are sold in the "red oak" group. Red oak is easier to grow, for sure. I can grow about 3x more lumber of red oak as white oak on the same acre. Plus now the bourbon/wine barrel industry is after white oak logs, few good white oak logs are going to general sawmills. White oak likes lots of prescribed fire at certain points of its lifespan and grows much slower, it's just more difficult to manage than red oak. I do love the smell of the chainsaw's woodchips from a big white oak during harvest, there's no comparison to red oak in terms of aroma. Thanks again.

Great to understand why we get these gray staining.

😊thanks

Informative. Thank you. Btw...the "i" in Tamarind is not a hard sound like in "lime", but a soft "i" like in "limb". It is a tropical fruit tree.

Mould is type of fungus.

Can you share what color of stain you used on this Cypress faux beam?

Very informative, thank you!

To me the biggest difference is white oak smells like a whiskey barrel and red oak smells like ass

You speak of the holes in the red oak as if they don't exist in the white oak yet they do. Can this perhaps be explained differently and better? To me - both having holes - it's that the holes in the red are disorganized looking where, in the white, they are VERY organized looking.

Thank You Good information and explained well.

Carla, will you marry me? ;) White Oak is so incredibly superior to Red Oak is isn't funny. I have cutter heads and quarter sawn table tops to prove it!

I was told that, the term red & white oak, is derived not from the timbers colour, but from the colour of its foliage. What is your opinion on this, please?

Yall are funny, every comment you made seems to sway the customer towards white oak at 2-3x the price. Anyways, red oak is entirely an unbroken open pore end grain as you correctly demonstrated by blowing blows through the dowel. White oak does have an open pore end grain but the pores are smaller, less numerous and most importantly the open pores on the end grain are intermittently open & closed thus water has a much harder time traveling via capillary action. I also suspect tanin content is much higher in white oak and live oak as bugs and fungus don't seem to bother the heartwood. If you think white oak has something to brag on, you should see some straight grained quatersawn live oak. Yall two women are killing it, keep it up.

Thank you good presentation and I loved the dowel straw demo!

Thanks

Looks nice👍🏻, how durable will it be?

How does black oak compare to white and red oak?

I'm building mug trees out of red oak. I love it! it's easy to cut (or miscut, as I did with one part tonight), and it looks great with stain and clear coat, or just a clear coat. I might even try a coat of Old English to see how that works.

Excellent job laying out the differences. Thank you

White oak is excellent for making wooden boats. You can take a stick of red oak and blow bubbles with one end under water. Not for boats.

This is a good video for women. Course, us men know all this already. Sniff.

well done

Wow, don't know how this popped up, nice tutorial on oak. Thank you

I do post and beam, you can blow air thru a red oak timber over twenty feet long.

Does thermal modification improve the UV resistance?

Excellent video. I never knew there was a difference.

Thanks, For the information ladies. I have been using red oak for 20 plus years and never considered it's usage as a dovetail drawer until recently and I was unaware that it is not a good fit for dovetailing. I have had very good results using red oak for cabinet faces with both dark , light stains and glaze paints for grain look.

Very good!👍👍

These two look so bored....

Good info. One of my first projects years ago was a red oak top for a cabinet. After I stained it I noticed these little stain spots kept coming to the top, would wipe them off and an hour later they were back. Drove me nuts. Even re-sanded and still kept coming up. Set it aside for a couple of weeks and started over, this time using a stain blocker, problem solved. Have never used red oak again.

This is good stuff. I teach woodturning and will add your site to my list of recommended sources. The wood species I'd personally like to learn more about is maple. There are SO MANY types of maple, plus it has a tendency to spalt and contain figure, that I think we'd all like to hear your insights.

Thanks for the explanation. But why must every sentence uttered in America today begin with an unnecessary "so?"

Little frustrated. I could hear but if you're pointing to the chart but not zooming in, I can't see anything.

Fungi, fungus, funguses😂😂 I understand your confusion, but what was the other girl thinking telling you "they are interchangeable". Fungus is singular, fungi is plural, and funguses is not a word 😂

Wanted to send a video link to a friend about spalting and was delighted to find one that was not hosted by cis males. Informative video - I learned more. Thank you!

Sounds like a bit soft for decking

Please check your sound next time you do a video. This looked really interesting and informational, but I couldn't hear most of what was said. When I turned up the volume on my speakers, it was just grainy sounding.

Great video!

According to Turkish researchers, the wood loses up to 20% of its strength if its heated up to the 400 degree range. But if its heated only up to the 275 degree F, range but for a longer time, around 5-6 hours, then it only loses around 8% of its strength. Also, it does not get rid of sugars in the wood- it caramelizes the sugars so that they are not in a form fugus can grow in. By the way maple is very striking when thermaled.

Good information worth knowing.

Living in west Texas, blue pine isn’t something with which I’m at all familiar. I always thought it was a specific species of pine, but knowing the truth actually makes the wood more interesting. Thank you, ladies, for the education.

Is Tamarind Spalted wood safe to make moldings for cabinets?

Thank you so much for this video! Now I know what kind of oak I have on my floors. It’s original 1951 Parque three-quarter inch tongue and groove. I was wondering how light I can stain my floor. Do you have any idea? I saw someone that said that they mixed a little white in their stain. I have no idea what they meant by that.

A reminder: termites are the only insects that can "eat" their way through thermal wood without dying. Not for nourishment but to escape. They do not like the taste of it, though, and avoid it when possible. All other known a dozen or so wood eating insects die of starvation in a day or two as they cannot digest it and the fiber blocking their bellies. This means surface damage can happen but not structural.

The only problems we have seen with thermally modified wood is that 1) it becomes slightly more brittle (be careful when transporting it) and 2) on some softwoods knots can fall out in very rare cases. But all other characteristics are vastly improved, the wood becomes far more durable (it can give softwoods like pine that would last 5 years outside, the durability of ipé that will easily last 15 years), it becomes far more stable (it expands and shrinks far less), it tends to darken to a (imo) nicer color. It's also environmentally friendly, unlike impregnation that adds chemicals to increase durability, thermally modified woods are completely environmentally safe. The main advantage is really that you can give softwoods characteristics of hardwoods in terms of durability and stability. Yes you can increase durability with impregnation too, but that is a chemical process and it does not improve stability. Thermally modifying wood improves durability and stability in an environmentally friendly way without much added cost.

I first heard about thermally treated wood at a trade show in Las Vegas, but haven't heard anything since then. I'm interested that you neglected to mention wood density. How does the thermal treatment affect density? Also, although you did mention briefly that this wood is more stable, you should discuss whether or not movement is a factor in things like tabletops or countertops. Otherwise, great video.