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    Not all oak is equal. Flat sawn red oak, the cheapest and most common oak, doesn't engrave well due to the variation in the grain. Quarter sawn oak, red or white engraves uniformly and will produce pleasing results, particularly if color filled.

    Julian's example appears top be quarter sawn white oak.

    I would not use stains for color filling as it is very difficult to avoid the capillary action (bleeding) as previously mentioned.
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    It has been said that oak is expensive but here I can get oak cheaper than pine or poplar

  3. Are whiskey barrels made from white oak? I saw Jack Daniels making some rather nice hat/coat racks from whiskey barrel slats. Only thing I couldn't see is how they were painting the lasered logo. Someone mentioned it might be shoe polish. I have pictures if interested.

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    I've tried for a very long time to secure some of their whiskey barrels. They won't part with those suckers now that they've realized they are valuable. If you have a source for the barrel heads please pass it along

    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Davis - Sturgis SD View Post
    Are whiskey barrels made from white oak? I saw Jack Daniels making some rather nice hat/coat racks from whiskey barrel slats. Only thing I couldn't see is how they were painting the lasered logo. Someone mentioned it might be shoe polish. I have pictures if interested.

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  5. Quote Originally Posted by Keith Winter View Post
    I've tried for a very long time to secure some of their whiskey barrels. They won't part with those suckers now that they've realized they are valuable. If you have a source for the barrel heads please pass it along
    Keith, they had a mountain of barrels and lids they were selling at Sturgis this year. I went over to check them out but the lids all had the JD logo, I thought blanks would be more useful. And the barrels, apparently you need some special contraption to get them apart. Too much hassle for me at the time, lol.
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    Our local DIY store (B&Q) sells sample flooring lengths for a couple of pounds. I sometimes use them to engrave signs as often they are just about the right size, it comes pre finished and can engrave quite well. If I remember rightly this is a piece of oak, the word 'scouts' is about 30mm long.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julian Ashcroft View Post
    Our local DIY store (B&Q) sells sample flooring lengths for a couple of pounds. I sometimes use them to engrave signs as often they are just about the right size, it comes pre finished and can engrave quite well. If I remember rightly this is a piece of oak, the word 'scouts' is about 30mm long.
    That looks good Julian - nice a clean

    - the ones I'm looking at have a bit less contrast on the grain - never considered B&Q, might pay them a visit,I'll bet they have other woods as well. I seem to remember seeing bamboo in there when I bought some flooring a while back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Davis - Sturgis SD View Post
    And the barrels, apparently you need some special contraption to get them apart.
    Like a saw?
    They're not exactly high-tech...only way you'd need anything special is if you need to be able to put them back together.
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    Resurecting an old thread here...is there no issues either to the machine or the fumes that might come off with timber that has been varnished first or anything?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Ward View Post
    Resurecting an old thread here...is there no issues either to the machine or the fumes that might come off with timber that has been varnished first or anything?
    Shouldn’t think so, unless there was a lead based paint involved or some other form of treatment, such as pesticides. If your extraction is up to scratch....

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Bion View Post
    Shouldn’t think so, unless there was a lead based paint involved or some other form of treatment, such as pesticides. If your extraction is up to scratch....

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    Cool thanks John, always want to play on the cautious side is all just to be safe for our health and the laser. Yes extraction is good
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    Home Depot used to have a 'sample' box of oak flooring that customers could dig into.. I would pick up a piece (or ten) and play around with them.. That Oak seems to engrave nicely
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    This thread is rather timely for me. We just finished an oak floor install in our home last week, and the 'scrap' they left over is some very nice red oak TIG, in various widths. At the end of the job I saw all the stuff they were going to haul away, and my first instinct was to stockpile! I sifted through and culled the stack and stored some away. May not use it for awhile, or at all, but I find it hard to throw away perfectly fine hardwood.

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    I've been hanging on to, and moving from one home to another, a stack of solid oak and maple flooring (unfinished) that I got back in the 1970's. It's not enough material to do a floor but it's too nice to toss and I have yet to find a use for it. I did toss a chunk of the maple into my grill at one point to see if I could get some maple smoked flavor in my burgers and steak but it wasn't the right kind of grill for that.
    One side smooth, the other side somewhat profiled.

    I could probably cut off the tongue and groove on the maple and glue it up to make cutting boards or plaques.
    And I'd have to surface the not smooth side - on the Shopbot since I don't have a planer...

    Then again, I have a fire pit and I'm really tired of it taking up garage space! And I absolutely refuse to move it again the next time we move.

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