American White Oak
Denominación.
• Scientific name: Quercus alba L.
Provenance
Description of the wood
• Sapwood: cream-colour.
• Heartwood: light brown.
• Fiber: straight.
• Grain: medium size.
Impregnation
• Sapwood: medium [Impregnabilidad].
• Heartwood: no capable of being impregnated.
Mechanization
• Sawing process: no difficulties, excepting hardness.
• Drying process: slow. Risk of collapse and cementation. Risk of crack formation and sagging.
• Planing process and other processes: those ones characteristic of its hardness.
• Gluing process: difficulties can arise from the use of alkaline glues and acid adhesives.
• Nailing and screwing process: easy.
• Finish: easy.
Applications
• Rustic indoor and outdoor furniture.
• Interior Carpentry and exterior: Doors, windows, fences, flooring, parquet, friezes, mouldings, stairs.
• Structural Carpentry.
• Veneers and plywood.
• Barrels.
Mechanical properties
• Resistance to static flexion 1,050 kg/cm2.
• Elasticity module 123,000 kg/cm2.
• Resistance to compression 513 kg/cm2.
