Thread: Silky oak door frame or some other?

looks like the stuff to me. bubbly big pores messy looking stuff. I'm working it at the moment and its making me feel crook. Feel Itchy all over. . I don't like the look of it either, but its got a good rep and its easy to work. wouldn't use the sap either. it seperates pretty bad. crumbles.

Yep, definitely silky. It was used a lot in door and window frames. I have a stack of dormer windows made of the stuff from a '20s house demolished recently.

Jake's comment about the dust is spot on as well - it does the same to me. It's unlikely there'll be any sapwood in the stuff you've got, but for future reference, it's very susceptible to powder-post borer, especially when green, although the heartwood is pretty safe.

Silky. Most probaly Northern Silky - Cardwellia Subliminus.

Thanks for the help I will now store it until the perfect need comes up - maybe repalcement top of a badly damaged dining room table.

Cia

Black out I would be only to happy to help you store it mate. Silky is a beautiful timber. I have some here that I rescued off some buildings before they were demolished and it just amazing the age of it and the away it works.

Thanks for the offer, I'll try to keep it in mind. I see so much being lost these days as Brisbane finally woke from it's slumber and again is building but not before it demolishes first. I sat in a meeting yesterday watching the old building on the corner of Brookes St and Wickham Tce in the Valley (across from the old Police Station) being torn down by a pair of jaws converting verything into rubble. The old building did bite back once when it spat a large section of hardwood into the middle of the road missing a construction worker by only a metre. There was so much old timber going in that lot and I'll bet some nicely aged Silky.

Cheers,

yep that would be right. I remember seeing a building lined with rose mahogany all VJ boards as well as all the hardwood demolished the binned at the tip. All because the contractor ran out of time to get the job done, I was able to get a couple but the rest was destroyed.

I worked with a fella who sold his newly widowed mothers house to developers with an agreement that he could sell anything off the property as well before the date the demolition crew moved in. He told me someone bought the ceilings and some of the walls and moved in on the Sunday with chainsaw to get as much out as possible. I didn't ask what the timber was but it must have been of value.

Cheers,

Nick