Burr Oak??

Burr oak is in the white oak family and is a high quality wood for furniture. I have always heard wood needs to dry 1 year per inch, so it should be fine. You may want to take a moisture reading to be certain.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

Hope for the best results after you gather all information from experienced buddies.
Sharad

-- patanjali

Can I expect the same look as standard white oak when I quarter saw this wood. Thanks

-- "Nature provides us with the most beautiful things in this world"

I would expect similar results.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

if it’s already milled to thickness, you’ll may have difficulty getting quatersawn pieces. you usually pick how the wood is saw, either plain, rift, or quater, when the initial milling is done. you’ll have to go through the lumber and find the quatersawn pieces. but you should get the same rays and flecks that white oak has.

-- Joey, Magee, Ms http://woodnwaresms.com

thanks for the info. I don’t know if there is plain, rift, or quartered. I will find out when I get there. I am hoping to get as much character as possible.

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I have everythign drawn up and want to confirm my thinking on the table top. I am wanting to us 6- 6 1/2×1 1/2×64 pieces to make the top. I am thinking I want to groove both sides of the planks and then use a walnut spline (tongue) in between the oak. This would show the walnut splines on the ends as rectangles. Do you guys think that gluing it up with the tongues will be sturdy enough? will the differences of movement between the oak and walnut give me seasonal gapping? I’m open too suggestions. Any advice is knowledge. Thanks

-- "Nature provides us with the most beautiful things in this world"

I really don’t think you will have much problem with movement between the two. The walnut will be so small that it shoudn’t really matter. I would use epoxy for the glue up though. And having a full lenth spline will do nothing but make stronger. If your worried about making the walnut splines full lenth then you could just mortise the walnut in the ends about an inch or so. But again I don’t really see this as being a problem, but others might.

-- Les, Wichita, Ks. (I'd rather be covered in saw dust!)

Les, Thanks for the input. I have never used epoxy in a wood application before. Is there anything I should look out for on it. I looked in Woodworkers supply and the epoxy adhesives seem fairly self explanatory.

-- "Nature provides us with the most beautiful things in this world"

I use west systems epoxy all the time,it works well for just about anything. You can get it at the sailboat place in Andover, just east of there on the north side of the highway. Get the 206 hardener, it has a longer open time.

-- Les, Wichita, Ks. (I'd rather be covered in saw dust!)