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  1. 21st April 2012, 04:13 PM #1
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    Default Anyone good at identifying antique timber type? I think it's oak.

    I think I might have oak here. There are a couple of spots where the varnish has rubbed off and it seems to be a light timber with darker rings. Plus the chairs are quite heavy for their size.

    Plus anyone want to fancy a guess as to age of these chairs? The vinyl is in good nick so I suspect they have been re-upholstered in the last 30 years, But I think the chairs are older. They are smaller than modern day chairs but a bit too big to be childrens chairs (I got my husband to model for me to show you size hehehe).
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  3. 21st April 2012, 08:58 PM #2
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    Looks like Vic Ash to me. A couple more close up pics might help
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  4. 21st April 2012, 09:25 PM #3
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    I'm no expert but I'm going to say no, I've used vic ash before and to me this looks nothing like it and it's much heavier. I might take some more pictures tomorrow when the sun is out.
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    More pictures would be nice, but I agree with you, I think it is European oak too.
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    I've got a 70 year old European oak lounge suite. And the wood does looks just like that.
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    Looking at just the one pic. it looks like plain sawn Tassie Oak / Vic, Ash,usually we see quartered. Something looks wrong for it to be Oak. I could be wrong.
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  8. 22nd April 2012, 06:25 PM #7
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    Another pic.....was going to take more but it bloody starting storming here, and it's not bright enough inside for my phone camera.
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  9. 22nd April 2012, 10:51 PM #8
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    .....looks to me like a NON vintage canadian male? quarter cut?

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  10. 23rd April 2012, 01:09 AM #9
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    LOL no that is the rare species "beer guttius husbandnus".
    The shirt was a gift from a canadian exchange student, it's old and he put it on to clean the shed.
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    Do you know the origin of the chairs?

    It looks very like elm, common chair making timber in the the UK many years ago. I have a couple of elm chairs.
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  12. 23rd April 2012, 11:21 AM #11
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    Cadas, unfortunately I don't. Got these off ebay. I suppose I could ask the seller if she knows.
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    The chairs have an institutional feel, govt office, bank, hospital etc. They could well have been made here between ww1and2. Just a guess.
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    I'm from the UK and although it has an oak feel/look to it, it's not European Oak (Quercus robur).

    The grain pattern just does not look quite right - could be on of your loacl oaks though.
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  15. 24th April 2012, 05:32 PM #14
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    I think its ash - European ash, that is, not the Tassie version.
    I say this because
    1 . It looks like it - tho dirty and stained.
    2. Ash was valued for its elasticity and strength in cross section, plus good steam bending - good for a chair.
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  16. 24th April 2012, 08:20 PM #15
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    hmmmmmmmm some good suggestions

    I really wish there was an affordable service where you could nick off a little sample and get it tested.
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