**ENDED**silky oak for trade

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1" x 7" x 18" with edge flaws, this stuff is great to work with and has marvelous tight ray flakes (fairly large ones on a perfectly quartersawn surface and very nice tight ones on flat cut surfaces --- see the pic a couple of posts down from here)

I'd be happy to cut off some of this if a smaller trade is warranted.

Please see http://www.woodbarter.com/showthread.php?tid=90&pid=464#pid464 for my barter interests


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Looks like quarter sawn sycamore, except that last pic obviously isn't quarter sawn.


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Kevin said:
Looks like quarter sawn sycamore, except that last pic obviously isn't quarter sawn.


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It's pretty similar to sycamore but there are some significant differences, especially on flat cut surfaces where sycamore is bland and this stuff is not --- take a look at the pics on my site to see what I mean.

Here's flat cut sycamore then flat cut silky oak:

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Yeah - big difference. Does it have interlocking grain, and what does it look like qtr sawn?

Silky Oak is some pretty stuff.




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Kevin said:
Yeah - big difference. Does it have interlocking grain, and what does it look like qtr sawn?

Silky Oak is some pretty stuff.
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Nope, grain not interlocked. There are lots of pics on my site. Quartersawn often has excellent ray flakes but not as big as sycamore.
 
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