European Oak Quarter Sawn needed for table top
Hi there,
We are in desperate need of quarter sawn English/European Oak to restore our antique table. Will require 1.3m lengths of inch thick timber, width of planks doesn't much matter so long as it totals about 1.5m.
Any help would be much appreciated as we are finding this type of timber very difficult to source. :(
Many thanks,
Karolina
English Oak, where are you??
Thanks for the suggestions David. We've actually been to the timber places you mentioned without much success. The American oak seems whiter than ours but we'll need to take a leaf of the table top in to compare next time. Not heard of Japanese Oak yet but will ask about it. Found a place in Sydney that sells quarter sawn English Oak but there's no way of checking the colour against ours until we get it. Could be risky.
Funnily enough, I know the Sumner Park Op Shop you're referring to. You must be close by! I've been ebaying and gumtreeing for old furniture but our problem lies in the fact that the table is wider than most so sourcing secondhand oak of a suitable length is proving quite difficult. Seriously, someone should get into business selling this stuff because it should not be this difficult. So much antique furniture is made out of this timber and yet sourcing replacement timber is hard.
So the search continues...
Thanks again! :)