rift sawn white oak floor stain advice
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I need photos of your stained rift sawn white oak cabinets! Please? :)
Comments (9)Linelle: your description perfectly captures the difference between my sample and what I'm looking for! My sample is flat and lifeless. What I want is for the wood to look rich and alive. The example I chose may be red oak. I know white oak can be just as lively as red oak though. There are plenty of QS white oak photos that look rich and full of figure. It's the rift white oak that I cannot find good photos of! ILoveRed: I have seen the photo of the tall cabinets in the first kitchen and it is gorgeous! It doesn't show the detail of the wood as clearly as I need but I'll add it to my photos. The second kitchen you found has some really good photos. Thanks so much for finding that for me! omelet: I'm not an expert either but I agree with you - the cut determines the figure of the wood more than the finish. But take a look at the figure on the unstained backside of my sample door: Unstained, it has a lot of wonderful richness and unexpected fleck in too. If they didn't leave the backside unstained I would have never known that RS white oak could look so lively and have such lovely figure. In one of my other threads, we seem to have figured out that they used a mix of woods and cuts on this sample door. The side rails look like RS white oak, top and bottom rails QS white oak and center panel is plain sawn red oak. That's a fantastic suggestion to post on the flooring forum! Off I go......See MorePhotos of stained rift sawn white oak?
Comments (0)I'm cross posting this from the kitchen forum in the hopes of getting help from you wood experts here on the Flooring forum. :) If anyone would be so kind as to share your photos of stained rift sawn white oak, I'd be so appreciative! I'd like to gather a collection of photos to show my cabinet maker to help me describe what I want. I'm not totally happy with the door sample I got from my cabinet maker (see photos below). I really like the colour of the stain but I don't like how opaque it is because it totally masks all the figure of the wood (the medullary ray flecks and natural shimmer of the wood) and I hate how the stain darkened the grain so dramatically. I do like to see the grain, but not with so much contrast to the surrounding wood. The unstained backside of the door has wonderful figure, with a beautiful shimmer to the wood and lots of little medullary ray flecks. Here's a photo (note that it appears they used a mix of QS white oak, RS white oak and plain sawn red oak to construct the door): Here is an example of the rich, lively finish I would like for my cabinets: This was the best photo I could find. All the other photos I found were blurry, didn't have enough resolution to show the detail of the wood, or were of QS vs RS oak. QS oak is very popular but it's terribly difficult to find photos of RS white oak. Please help! I need more photos of stained RS oak that show the detail of the wood....See MoreNervous about new install of white rift sawn oak floors
Comments (3)sincerelymjandrj@yahoo.com , Rift Sawn White Oak is a beautiful selection. It is very strange that the contractor has never worked with White Oak before. I would ask to see his portfolio and look for reviews. Most big remodels and new construction use White Oak over Red Oak....See More3" rift sawn select white oak floor installation.
Comments (9)look at older homes, they were done w/2" and 3" . this is 3 and 1/4. (so your 3" will be 1/4" narrower) 3 1/4" seems to be very common size. I don't know where he's getting his material, but you may want to look elsewhere. Baird Brothers, 4 1/4" White Oak select. He can't get them? man, just look online. those sizes are available all over the place....See More
ILoveRed
4 years agoWe have Live Sawn White Oak which has rift sawn in it..
my floor pro put several stain samples down for me. The Natural just wasn’t right for me.
I chose Antique Brown in a custom mix. 2 Antique Brown to 1 Natural. It is a nice medium brown. Straight Antique Brown was too dark for me. The stain I chose shows off the wood beautifully.
You have to see several sample colors after your floor is down.Our guy used water based products.
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PROOak & Broad
4 years agoWe sell a TON of Rift & Quartered White Oak. I would not be concerned about applying a stain to it. Yes many people leave it natural but about half of our clients have some sort of stain applied and it looks wonderful!!! Here is an example. :-)
Rift & Quartered White Oak Plank Flooring In Atlanta · More InfoMary Dragowski thanked Oak & BroadMary Dragowski
4 years agoHelen
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoI think the middle ground in terms of stain is what you are looking for.
When I read "walnut", I think of a very dark "walnut" color. Natural (no stain) are light but the color Oak & Broad posted, seems in the middle.
I had a dining table made for me and it is a combination of maple (very light) with walnut inserts (dark brown contrast).
FWIW, I had a LOT of custom white oak cabinetry built and had them stained a warm medium tone color and I love the color. My oak floors are natural but that is because I wanted them to specifically contrast because I had so much other stained wood.
I think a very dark stain - e.g. what I think of as walnut would hide the beautiful grain of rift (or quarter sawn) oak whereas a medium stain enhances it.
These are my quarter sawn cabinets stained what I think of as a warm medium tone.
This is the chair which as "inspiration" for my cabinet stain. I knew the color I wanted but wasn't able to communicate it through words or any pictures I had found and then eureka - there was the color residing on a chair I had inherited from my mother.
I went through a bunch of stain samples and none of them were what I was looking for. I was sorting through some stuff with my designer in terms of whether I would be using after the remodel and I looked at the chair and realized it was the exact color I had been attempting to describe - the light sections on either side of the middle. The cabinet maker actually took the chair with him so that he could replicate the stain and then he brought me a sample door to approve :-)Mary Dragowski thanked HelenMary Dragowski
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