This is going back a bit. I can't remember which supplier, but it was another of the "100% oak" type places.
Funny how when I was making oak furniture, they could turn out a finished piece for less than the cost of the timber to me.
Anyway on closer inspection it turned out that the 100% oak was engineered. It was cuts of inferior oak glued together in strips, and then veneered.
So it seems that you gets what you pays for.
These type of oak pieces started turning up around the time I packed in making stuff. Orders were already falling off, although I wouldn't have thought that my clients would have been interested. Anyway whatever, I stopped making in hardwood completely as I was getting allergic to the dust.
Funny how when I was making oak furniture, they could turn out a finished piece for less than the cost of the timber to me.
Anyway on closer inspection it turned out that the 100% oak was engineered. It was cuts of inferior oak glued together in strips, and then veneered.
So it seems that you gets what you pays for.
These type of oak pieces started turning up around the time I packed in making stuff. Orders were already falling off, although I wouldn't have thought that my clients would have been interested. Anyway whatever, I stopped making in hardwood completely as I was getting allergic to the dust.
