Identifying different oaks
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:39 pm
I just got my hands on some offcuts of old wine barrels and was wondering if there is a way to tell the difference between French and American oak. They are stave sections as below.
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Some of them have very clean straight grain, others have a marbled kind of grain, the marbled grain is noticeably heavier too.
Thanks
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Some of them have very clean straight grain, others have a marbled kind of grain, the marbled grain is noticeably heavier too.
Thanks