Recently got a pickup truck load of red oak thats currently drying and is down
to about 14 percent. My wife would like a new bed for our new queen size
mattress with matching side tables and I have some plans for this project. I
believe that quartersawn white oak was mostly used for the original arts and
crafts furniture but is there any reason red oak would not be okay? Any
recommendations for finishing the red oak so that it appeares as a resonable
fascimilie of the white oak? The red oak is not quartersawn. I have never
built any nice furnature nor done any fine finishing but have a broad enough
background and experience to be confident of at least getting the parts cut out
and put together, nor is money for finishing supplies a problem It's the
actual finishing steps I'm worried about. Although I do not have an HVLP
sprayer I do have a good quality automotive spray gun with compressor. I have
DAGS and read quite a bit on finishing in general and arts and crafts in
particular but most all of it does call for white oak. I want it to look nice
and would like to use the red oak I have. Do you think I would be better off
getting some white oak or will the red be okay? Finishing recommendations? TIA
Mike in Arkansas