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Q. rubra<\/em> itself is a native of North America, growing in the eastern and central United States and southeast and south-central Canada. Q. rubra<\/em> grows from the north end of the Great Lakes, east to Nova Scotia, south as far as Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana, and west to Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Minnesota.<\/p>\n

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Quercus rubra Distribution Map<\/p><\/div>\n
Other members of the Red Oak Group have different geographical distribution patterns.<\/p>\n
For the sake of simplicity, I will refer to Q. rubra<\/em> from this point forward simply as Red Oak. Furthermore, all information is specific to Red Oak, not the Red Oak group.<\/p>\n
General Characteristics:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The heartwood of Red Oak tends to be a light to medium brown, commonly with a reddish cast. However, it is important to note that color alone is not a reliable way to distinguish between Red and White Oak, in those limited situations in which differentiation is of importance. The sapwood of Red Oak is of a white to light brown color and it is not always sharply demarcated from the heartwood. When Red Oak is quartersawn it displays a prominent ray fleck pattern.<\/p>\n
The grain of Red Oak tends to be straight. The texture of Red Oak is coarse with an uneven texture. The pores of Red Oak are so large and open that it is said that a person can blow into one end of the wood, and air will come out the other end, provided that the grain runs straight enough. There are videos which demonstrate this property.<\/p>\n
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Red Oak 2 Interior Slanted<\/p><\/div>\n
Red Oak does not have the same level of decay and rot resistance that White Oak demonstrates. Red Oak is rated as non-durable to perishable in terms of its susceptibility to rot and it also has poor insect resistance.<\/p>\n
Red Oak will stain when in contact with.<\/p>\n
Working Characteristics:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Red Oak responds well to both hand and machine powered tools.<\/p>\n
Red Oak responds well to steam bending.<\/p>\n
Red Oak glues, stains, and finishes nicely.<\/p>\n
However, it does have a moderately high rate of shrinkage which gives it poor dimensional stability, particularly in flatsawn boards. In addition, Red Oak can react with iron, especially in the presence of water, which causes staining and discoloration.<\/p>\n
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Red Oak Bowl Interior Slanted<\/p><\/div>\n
Red Oak is reported to have a distinct smell when worked. This scent is reportedly common to all Oak species and most wood workers report the smell to be pleasant and appealing.<\/p>\n
Note that there is no mention of Red Oak and turning. This is because while Red Oak can be turned, its characteristics don’t make it ideal for the purpose compared to other moderately priced and readily available domestic hardwoods such as maple and cherry.<\/p>\n
Pricing and Availability:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
My Red Oak blanks were cut off scrap from a larger Murphy Bed and library table project. I have no sense of the price of the lumber, but Red Oak prices should be in the moderate range for a domestic hardwood, and Red Oak tends to be slightly less expensive than White Oak.<\/p>\n
Red Oak is also widely available through wholesale and retail lumber dealers.<\/p>\n
In this blog, I almost always recommend several vendors with whom I have done considerable business and in whom I have great confidence. These vendors are: West Penn Hardwoods<\/a>, Bell Forest Products<\/a>, Got Wood?<\/a>, NC Wood,<\/a> WoodTurningz<\/a>, Amazon Exotic Hardwoods<\/a>, Griffin Exotic Wood<\/a>, Exotic Woods USA<\/a>, and Wood Turning Blanks 4U<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Of these fine vendors, only three are selling Red Oak at this time.<\/p>\n
WoodTurningz sell small spindle sizes only ranging in price from $0.95 to $4.50 depending on the size, although the largest is only 2.75” x 2.75” x 10”, likely meant for a pepper\/salt mill.<\/p>\n
Bell Forest Products sells a range of dimensions, all of them small spindle sizes, with about half of the offerings actually being dowels. The largest piece is 2” x 2” x 32” selling for $10.80.<\/p>\n
Finally West Penn Hardwoods is also selling Red Oak but only in dimensional lumber formats with various prices per board foot. It would be possible to cut down 8\/4 lumber into small bowl blanks, but that isn’t the likely intended purpose.<\/p>\n
The lack of availability from these vendors reflects that most of them are fairly focused on wood intended for turning on a lathe and Red Oak isn’t really an ideal wood for that purpose.<\/p>\n
Woodfinder<\/a> is an excellent website that is dedicated to advertising wood dealers. In your search for Red Oak, this can be an invaluable resource provided you use multiple search terms to capture all the possible listings. I can’t speak to the quality of any of the listed dealers, but Woodfinder does have the advantage of allowing searches to be performed based on location which might allow an interested buyer to visit a listed wood dealer in person to hand pick pieces at a comfortable price.<\/p>\n
A significant problem with using Woodfinder is that many vendors are listed for woods that, upon further investigation, they do not offer. I don’t know if perhaps once they did and they didn’t update their listings or if some vendors use a standardized list of woods that include most everything conceivable with the idea that once you land on their page you will find something you want to buy even if you didn’t know it beforehand. It happens to me all the time!<\/p>\n
Uses:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Red Oak readily finds uses in cabinetry, furniture, interior trim, flooring, and veneer. Again, note that turning is not a common use for Red Oak.<\/p>\n
Sustainability:<\/strong><\/h2>\nRed Oak is not listed as being in any way threatened or endangered by the Convention in International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices<\/a> nor does it appear on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.<\/a><\/p>\n
To the best of my knowledge, Red Oak is not subject to any special restrictions by any United States government agency.<\/p>\n
I realize that inherent in working with wood is the killing of a part of the natural world that may be slow to return and if I become deeply concerned about this fact, I will have to find a new hobby. I hope that such a time does not come to pass or at least not any time soon. In part because I am concerned about legally and responsibly obtained wood, I am reluctant to buy from sellers outside of well-established and known vendors. I am highly unlikely, for example, to purchase any wood from auction sites, such as Ebay, because of uncertain sourcing and documentation, as well as the potential, even likelihood, of material being misidentified in order to achieve a higher selling price.<\/p>\n
However, due to the commercial scarcity of some woods, resorting to auction sites such as Ebay or Etsy may be the only way to obtain some desirable domestic, or in some cases exotic imported, species that are not routinely commercially harvested. The potential risks of buying in these marketplaces have to be balanced against the desire to work with a specific species of wood. That is inherently an individual decision.<\/p>\n
I also realize that many, if not most, wood workers do not have endangered species lists memorized, therefore I think it worthwhile and important to do even a small amount of research before purchasing any lumber, domestic as well as imported, to be certain of the potential impact you are having, even in a small way, on threatened or endangered populations. This information is easy to come by and takes only minutes to locate through any Internet search engine, including those you can access on your phone as you are standing in the lumber yard or store. Unfortunately, you simply cannot count on a vendor to tell you a product they are selling is endangered.<\/p>\n
Health Hazards:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Although severe reactions are quite uncommon, Red Oak has been reported as a sensitizer, which means that the more one is exposed the more severe reactions can become. Usually most common reactions simply include eye and skin irritation, as well as asthma-like symptoms. In addition to these concerns, the long-term negative effects of exposure to sawdust of any species are well documented.<\/p>\n
It is important to remember that although many people may, or may not, be sensitive to any given wood, the only experience that truly counts is your own, so use reported side effects as guidance but not as a substitute for cautious and safe practices.<\/p>\n
Appropriate protective equipment is therefore always recommended when working with this, or any other, wood, exotic or domestic, unless you have worked with the species before and are certain you are not sensitive to it.<\/p>\n
Complete information about health hazards<\/a> associated with a wide variety of exotic hardwoods is available from The Wood Database<\/a>. Additional information about how to best use a dust collection system and personal protective equipment, such as respirators, can also be found through this excellent and comprehensive resource<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, I experienced no negative side effects when working with Red Oak.<\/p>\n
My Personal Experiences:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
I have turned White Oak before in both bowl and spindle formats but this was my first experience with Red Oak.<\/p>\n
As far as the experience of turning is concerned, I couldn’t tell you the difference between turning White Oak versus Red Oak, but my specific experience with Red Oak is as follows.<\/p>\n
I didn’t find Red Oak to be an ideal turning wood and that is reflected in the fact that retailers specializing in turning wood tend to not stock Red, or White, Oak. When turned, the wood is very splintery so it can be difficult to achieve a nice finished edge particularly. As previously noted the pores on Red Oak are enormous so the end grain areas on a rounded object tend to be difficult to make smooth without the use of wood pore filler, a practice I have never yet employed.<\/p>\n
On the plus side, the rays do create a nice appearance on an otherwise fairly plainly colored wood. Red Oak does respond well to sanding, although it has essentially no natural luster so sanding to very fine grits will not be rewarding. And Red Oak does take a finish nicely.<\/p>\n
At the end of the process, you can achieve a nice turned wood bowl using Red Oak but with so many other readily available domestic hardwoods in the same relative price range it probably just makes more sense to use a wood that more readily lends itself to turning on the lathe. Woods such as Maple and Cherry come to mind in this category.<\/p>\n
Red Oak wasn’t my favorite turning wood but it also wasn’t my least favorite to date. If you have some odds and ends of Red Oak from another project, as I did, then give it a try, but I wouldn’t specifically seek out Red Oak to buy as a turning wood as, again, there are just better options for that specific purpose.<\/p>\n
And in terms of the distinctive odor, to me it smelled strongly of vinegar, which I didn’t find terribly unpleasant but I also wouldn’t say that I found it pleasing or would be signing up to have to smell it on a regular basis.<\/p>\n
As always, I wish all my readers a great experience in whatever their wood working interests happen to be and to those who like working with lathes especially, do a good turn today!<\/p>\n
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