What are you building with your milled wood?

[MustangMike]

Installed the Black Oak workbench at my Stepson's house today, everyone was happy! Also, mounted a vice on it.

 

[RI Chevy]

Well, where's the legs and stuff Mike? Lol
Looks good.

 

[MustangMike]

He did not want legs. Wanted brackets spaced so he could fit the 3 garbage cans underneath. It is solid!

 

[MustangMike]

If anyone is interested, I used Loctite PL Premium to glue it together and to fill some cracks. Stuff is slow drying but strong as anything, and takes a stain well. For stain, I used just one coat of Behr Semi Transparent.

Very satisfied with the way both products worked.

 

[MustangMike]

Working on a small table (30" X 4') for my Daughter.

 

[RI Chevy]

Nice Mike! [emoji106]

 

[RI Chevy]

Nothing like milling your own wood to make nice stuff.

 

[MustangMike]

Nothin wasted, the legs are made from the side slabs cut in half, than 4" wide. The remaining wood (approx 2") is used to for bracing the legs together.

I never had opportunity to work with Black Oak before, I really like it! I don't think it is very common. Seems to be smoother and denser than Red Oak.

 

[RI Chevy]

How can you tell difference? I think we only have red and white here in RI.

 

[MustangMike]

Black Oak is in the Red Oak Family, but look a the bark (a small piece is on the table), it is much different. I'm sure you also have Chestnut Oak (which is in the White Oak family), but different leaves, bark and wood. Also, Pin Oak … etc.

From the internet: "The bark is thick, nearly black in color and deeply furrowed with narrow scaly ridges; the inner bark is orange-yellow in color."

 

[Hedgerow]

Black Oak is in the Red Oak Family, but look a the bark (a small piece is on the table), it is much different. I'm sure you also have Chestnut Oak (which is in the White Oak family), but different leaves, bark and wood. Also, Pin Oak … etc.

From the internet: "The bark is thick, nearly black in color and deeply furrowed with narrow scaly ridges; the inner bark is orange-yellow in color."

It is very common here in the Ozarks..
Maybe more common than Red Oak.

 

[MustangMike]

We seem to have a lot of stands of Chestnut Oak around here (generally on rocky slopes), but I have not noticed a lot of Black Oak. Looks like we are near the edge of the range.

 

[RI Chevy]

Is it just as hard as Red or white? Or harder?

 

[Hedgerow]

Is it just as hard as Red or white? Or harder?

Denser than true red, not as dense as white.

 

[Hedgerow]

Some race events here use 7x9 black oak ties.

 

[RI Chevy]

Cool. Thanks. I gotta look for some here.

 

[MustangMike]

Jeff, I think White Oak is generally harder than Red Oak, but this stuff is real hard. It seemed tougher to mill than the Red Oak. May have been because it was dryer. (I forgot to hit post)

So thanks for the clarification Hedgerow, that is what I thought, but was not sure.

I think the toughest stuff may be Chestnut Oak, AKA Rock Oak. I'll have to mill some of that one of these days.

 

[RI Chevy]

Thanks Mike. I never knew all these different types of oak existed. Lol

 

[Hedgerow]

Jeff, I think White Oak is generally harder than Red Oak, but this stuff is real hard. It seemed tougher to mill than the Red Oak. May have been because it was dryer. (I forgot to hit post)

So thanks for the clarification Hedgerow, that is what I thought, but was not sure.

I think the toughest stuff may be Chestnut Oak, AKA Rock Oak. I'll have to mill some of that one of these days.

Sometimes growing conditions make more difference than species..

Black is hard, but on the whole, it’s not as dense as white oak.

Also does not smell as good as white oak.

 

[Rob Stafari]

Thanks Mike. I never knew all these different types of oak existed. Lol

At least 58 native to North America. Over 600 different oak species in the world. They hybridize with each other so classification/identification can be difficult and why they are generally lumped into broad categories of white, red, black, swamp, etc. Had a real stumper of an oak tree once and started doing a little reading... blew my mind.

http://www.mast-producing-trees.org/2009/11/native-oaks-of-north-america/