Hi guys,
Just wondering if anyone has any experience with 'Toasted Oak' (American Hardwoods) or Torrefied Oak or Cambia Oak (Britton Timbers) - all just different names, depending on supplier, for thermally modified American Red Oak?
The claims are that by heating the wood at very high temperatures in a low oxygen kiln (to stop the timber combusting) down to 0% MC and then reconditioning it back to 6 or 7% it stabilises the wood and also darkens it (toasts?). It also becomes outdoor durable apparently.
I am about to build some exterior folding doors and windows and was planning on using Sapele, but no one seems to have any atm. So I was considering using this timber. Or maybe Jarrah, but it's a bit too red for my taste.
Anyone have any experience or, failing that, opinions?
Cheers, Dom