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   Jamie_Buxton | Oct 27, 2008 05:28pm | #1

   To my eye, red oak and white oak look different, and I wouldn't mix the two in one piece of furniture.

   Depending on your design, quartered lumber might work perfectly well with plainsawn plywood.   The quartered face of the lumber will mostly be the front of the furniture.   The plywood will mostly be parts that go front-to-back in the piece.  If you look at the edges of the quartered lumber -- that is, the face that's going front-to-back -- it looks like plainsawn.

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   oldusty | Oct 28, 2008 06:25am | #2

        Hi spindle ,

         Plain sliced or plain sawed , may not be the same thing , flat sawn ?

         Imo , using only the White Oak and not mixing the Red will be more simpatico .

       The inside shelving may not matter but the sides and outside will be seen .

                            regards   dusty

                        

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   ring | Oct 28, 2008 08:52am | #3

   Don't mix the red and white. Biologically they may be cousins, but they don't work well together. Much better to use the flatsawn veneer with your QS solid stock, all in white.

   David Ring

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   SARGEgrinder47 | Oct 28, 2008 05:41pm | #4

   I work with a lot of both and as suggested... I definitely would not mix them. The red has a different tint to begin with than white and they just don't take stain the same. Red oak is red oak and white oak is white oak so to speak. I have been that route years ago and I hate to make the same mistake twice. Just my opionion having used quite a bit of both.

   Sarge..

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   spindle | Oct 28, 2008 05:53pm | #5

   Thanks for all of the suggestions.  Looks like I'll keep white oak with white oak.  I've just enough quarter sawn to do this project and think I'm guilty of trying to make the wood fit the project.  Having said that I've got plenty of plain sawn solid stock that would fit the bill and match the bookcase that's in the same room.  Think I'll save the quarter sawn for a while longer.  Arts and Crafts shelf maybe?  Give me an excuse to try fuming.

    

   Thanks,

   Greg

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   SARGEgrinder47 | Oct 28, 2008 07:39pm | #7

   "think I'm guilty of trying to make the wood fit the project"..

   At some point I would venture to guess everyone has done that at some time or other. I just wrote a lenghty reponse to just that subject in response to Lataxe in the thread I started... Simply.. A Coffee Table. Similar situation but not quite as pronunced as matching red oak and white unless the project is strickly utilatarian and the beholder could care less one way or the other.

   I used to do quite a few of those projects to donate to Abused Women's Shelters and the like. The people using them really weren't of great concern about grain match.. etc. >)

   Sarge..

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   oldusty | Oct 28, 2008 09:47pm | #8

     Sarge ,   That's an interesting point about the recipients of our donations .

                 They never complain and are always happy , for sure .

        Most clients , except not the ladywyfes , don't see what we see as far as grain and defects and such .

                          thank goodness

                                       dusty

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   SARGEgrinder47 | Oct 29, 2008 01:26am | #9

   I do not have clients Dusty.. but these days I would expect if I did and they are paying....

   (1) they want it yesterday

   (2)they will definitely be looking and expect perfection from the product delivered as hey.. we live in a wireless communication age so why can't you do it with wood?

   So.. I cannot say for sure but I believe they could care less what problems the individual producing might en-counter... just make sure it's absolutely perfect and I want it now if you want your payment. One of the reasons I decided long ago I don't want clients to deal with in this arena as I can't necessarily deliver on either count. :>)

   Sarge..

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   bones | Oct 28, 2008 06:48pm | #6

   You don't say how your are to finish (clear or dark), but I'll bet it will stick out like a sore thumb.  If it were me, I'd spend the extra bucks up front instead of cussing yourself every day you look at it.  But that's just me.  I did something similar once.  I made a dining room table with oak, and someone convinced me that the Ash would be so close and I'd never know the difference for the turned legs, and they were close to accurate, but I see it(every time I sit down).  The difference 21 years ago would amouned to about 70 bucks.  Lessons learned.  If you are ok with it go for it. Maybe buy a small piece and do a sample board and look at it and judge for yourself. 

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   If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it.
   And if it stops moving, subsidize it.