Repairing silky oak casement windows

**brizylad** · 24th April 2008, 09:22 AM

I have a project underway (read long term) where I am going to use old casement windows as doors for a display cabinet.

At present I am stripping paint...what a lovely job...to get back to hopefully bare timber, so on one window where the joints had open badly, I decided to pull it apart.

To cut a long story short, pulling apart made stripping marginally easier, but a few of the original wedges are now unuseable.

My question to you all is, what timber do you think would be best to use to replace the broken wedges.

Thanks in advance
Stuart J.

**Barry Hicks** · 24th April 2008, 09:51 AM

I was told by a guy who worked for many years in
a joinery works that the silky oak used in windows
is northern silky oak aka bull oak (Cardwellia sublimis)
as it is more resistant to rot than southern silky oak
(Gravillea robustus).

If it to be used indoors, I wouldn't matter anyway.

**SAISAY** · 24th April 2008, 02:30 PM

could you post a picture and show what it is you need?
We might have something up here you can use.
Wolffie

**brizylad** · 25th April 2008, 08:10 AM

Yes Barry, they will be only internal now. I thought any matching colour timber would be fine, but thought I would check.

Wolffie, the wedges I am referring to are the ones used to tighten the tenon into the mortice.

**SAISAY** · 25th April 2008, 09:39 AM

I will be on the lookout for windows up here and see what I can get hold of
Wolffie

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