By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:23:18 +0000

We’ve been asked to manufacture some external joinery – windows and doors – for a client using his own brown oak. Could anyone advise suitability please?

By: Antony Croft

Antony Croft — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 22:24:00 +0000

there are two main forms of brown rot in oaks, and at least two other forms one very rare the other localy common. Fistulina hepatica is the desired one, the one foresters know to be the true brown oak, as fistulina hepatica feeds mainly off the acids or more specificaly vinegars and actualy alters the wood very little till very advanced decay. Laetiporus suphureus is the more difficult to work version of brown oak, more stripey in colour and tends to cause a lot of medullary splitting on drying as the fungus uses this pathway for colonisation strategies. the turned item here is most likely this latter fungus also known as the sulphur polypore or chicken of the woods. the other two forms of brown rot in oak are daedalea quercina a common deadwood consumer, and Piptoporus quercinus the oak poly pore, a very very rare beast. i can supply images for this page of all described if desired.

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By: Tom

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