slim_boy_fat
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Looks like woodworm to me. 
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My partner wants a kitchen table to fit with the rest of the place, so that is my intention. But it won't be for a while. At present I'm just putting these into storage as I need the yard clear for some other works.
I have the joists that they came off for the legs etc. of the table too.
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Probably. We have a kitchen table at the moment, but its a modern varnished thing. She would like a "farmhouse" style table, and its kind of a "romantic" (i mean, thats not the right word, but...) idea that the table was made from wood from the house. Or some nonsense like that.
Plus, not that i know in the slightest, but i figure timber is probably not cheap.
Plus (mk2) - ill probably never do it just as a "ill make a table" thing. Its more that i have the timber, and it would be a nice thing to do with it.
Does that make any sense at all?
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That makes sense, just seems a lot of work when someone with an Alaskan mill could mill up a bit of oak in an hour or two and you could probably get your top in one piece. Wouldn't take much to beat it up for that "old" look.
Bob
This lot was only a mornings work with a chainsaw mill.
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The medullary rays are also known a figuring. Oak is partcilarily enhanced when the wood is either cut in a special way or cut out in thick veneers & used in what is called book matching veneers . Look up quarter sawn & eighth sawn oak and you should see some . Good examples of figuring where no expense was spared in the cutting of the wood to show its beauty are some of the panels behind the politicians in the house of commons. It's quite wasteful if you don't have use for the award pieces but a good cabinet maker can use them all.
It's oak the extra clue is that the iron nails /screws have been eaten by the acid resins of the oak and that turns the wood blue around the nail /screw as a consequence . If you cut it , it should smell like cat muck ? On old oak wood pre drill the hole with a stepped drill so the head and shank fit nicely without forcing the wood apart . The actual thread hole part should also have a very light taper on it . Lubricate all screws with tallow ( hard mutton fat ) or molten candle wax to help them go in easier in the predrilled hole .
The wood with the red rust stains are a different timber .
If you can use a brace & the correct sized filed up spade screwdriver bit to put the screws in as it allows you to have a lot of control and torque on the screw far better than a cabinetmakers screw driver .
In the finer grain cuts you can see the flecks of resin too .
There are several different woods in all your pictures the really bad wood worm stuff could well be elm . Hanzo Hatari the guy who makes the hand planes will know a lot more . Drop him a PM & invite him to the thread .
I've got approx 16 sq foot of Japanese oak 8 off 2 foot long by 6 inches wide by an inch thick , imported in 1935 and used to build the telephone exchange in a former RAF base in 1938 . They were the boards covering the incoming & out going cables in a trench the length of the frame room floor . Originally they were 36 inches long , I had 38 of the boards , but some were re sawn to be 36 x 6 x 1/2" & used for making small boxes . My bits are part of a built in fitted food store cupboard where each shelf can hold at least 20 stone of jars of pressure canned food & stocks without failing .
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Spray the oak with a decent wood worm killer so you don't infect other untreated stored wood ,
