Anybody out there know what oak is predominately used by manufacturers for
Kitchen cabinets. I am going to build a wine rack and the cabinets are
natural oak but I don't know whether it is red or white. I am guessing red,
but not sure. Can anyone help?

Jim

Jim Jacobs wrote:
Anybody out there know what oak is predominately used by
manufacturers for Kitchen cabinets. I am going to build a wine rack
and the cabinets are natural oak but I don't know whether it is red
or white. I am guessing red, but not sure. Can anyone help?

Red oak is more generally used. Not better, just more used.

If you can access an end of a piece of your cabinets you should be able to
tell...red oak is very porous, ends just suck up finish without sealing.


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In article . net, "Jim Jacobs" wrote:
Anybody out there know what oak is predominately used by manufacturers for
Kitchen cabinets. I am going to build a wine rack and the cabinets are
natural oak but I don't know whether it is red or white. I am guessing red,
but not sure. Can anyone help?

The overwhelming majority are red oak -- probably because it's less expensive.

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If in doubt use white. It will be easier to match when staining.
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Anybody out there know what oak is predominately used by manufacturers for
Kitchen cabinets. I am going to build a wine rack and the cabinets are
natural oak but I don't know whether it is red or white. I am guessing
red, but not sure. Can anyone help?

Jim

Thanks for all the quick responses. Gotta love these newsgroups.....


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Anybody out there know what oak is predominately used by manufacturers for
Kitchen cabinets. I am going to build a wine rack and the cabinets are
natural oak but I don't know whether it is red or white. I am guessing
red, but not sure. Can anyone help?

Jim