English Oak?

[HardTarget]

Hi, would anyone know were I could purchase English Oak? Need to buy a piece appromitaly 36" x 4" x 4" Based in the North West, would be handy

 

[carlb40]

There are plenty of timber yards up yorkshire way that should be able to supply that.

 

[stefan szoka]

Cheaper to buy imported solid oak furniture these days and saw it up !!!

 

[carlb40]

Cheaper to buy imported solid oak furniture these days and saw it up !!!

Ahhh but will the imported oak furniture be made from english oak?

 

[Wood Monkey]

If you were nearer me I'd happily sort a piece out for you. I was given 6 Oak trees which I turned into planks. Sorry for gloating.

In the past I've struggled to get English Oak. In my experience it's mostly 'Euro Oak' which mostly comes from France.

 

[Cheshirechappie]

One possibility is to look in the Yellow Pages under 'Sawmills' for local estate sawmills, of which there are still a few about. A lot of what they do is geared to timber for estate repairs, so 4" x 4" oak gateposts and the like might be just up their street - and 36" would be an offcut to them. Don't expect it kiln-dried to 8% moisture content, though!

 

[custard]

Does it have to be English? If you just need the odd board you can pick it up on Ebay from these people

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Sherwin-Timber ... 34.c0.m322

I've had some trophy boards from them in the past and their oak (which I think is from north east Europe, very close and straight grained) is well dried and very good quality. Not the cheapest, but quality rarely is.

 

[carlb40]

I forgot about these guys, i have used them in the past and deal a lot with waney edge boards for reasonable prices

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/hardwoodworks ... 7675.l2562

 

[PerranOak]

If you were nearer me I'd happily sort a piece out for you. I was given 6 Oak trees which I turned into planks. Sorry for gloating.

You're quite right to gloat, that is fab!

I've always wondered, does stacking like that really ensure that the board remain flat-ish? The gaps must be quite small.