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Title: What wood?
Post by: debodun on April 18, 2013, 06:39:00 AM

Does anyone know what wood was used to make this captain's chair?

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: bigwull on April 18, 2013, 06:41:20 AM

I,d say Beech....as it is very durable....and burns well,....

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: mart on April 18, 2013, 06:54:21 AM

If its in the U.S. most likely hard rock maple !! Didn`t enlarge though !!

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: ghopper1924 on April 18, 2013, 07:05:19 AM

Morning. ;D

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: debodun on April 18, 2013, 07:13:43 AM

Here are some close-ups of the wood - backrest and seat.

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: bigwull on April 18, 2013, 07:37:23 AM

Looks like Oak,...very strong...and burns better than Beech...gives off more eat and lasts longer... ;D...can,t say i like the plastic castors....

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: mart on April 18, 2013, 08:40:58 AM

Looks like maple to me !!  Occassionally you will find a chair like this of oak but it doesn`t look like this one is !!  Hard to be positive though from a pic !!

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: KC on April 18, 2013, 08:43:44 AM

I'm leaning towards maple.

Well...this one isn't warming you today Wullie!!!

How do you like the rain and cooler air Mart?

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: mart on April 18, 2013, 09:21:31 AM

My garden was getting so dry that we both are loving it !!  And the wind isn`t blowing us into the next county !!

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: Rauville on April 18, 2013, 09:29:17 AM

Looks like mixed woods to me. Those straight rungs in the front appear out of place.
(BTW: It's still snowing here! :P)

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: mart on April 18, 2013, 10:32:38 AM

87 yesterday,, 51 now,, 38 in the morning I hear from the weatherman !!  Praying for no frost,, I don`t want to replant for the third time !!

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: bigwull on April 18, 2013, 12:07:15 PM

Send some of those temps over here,...you,ve got it made over there,87F in April,....cheap gasoline, cheap liquid gas, cheap steaks....Yet on the TV all I hear is how hard it is over there...you don,t know how hard it is....

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: Ipcress on April 18, 2013, 12:46:57 PM

Mixed woods ?! Looks like a mixed chair. Something Dorothy threw together for the munchkins.

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: bigwull on April 18, 2013, 01:08:47 PM

 ;D ;D ;D ;

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: debodun on April 18, 2013, 01:13:32 PM

I surmise that my uncle built the platform for and reinforced the chair to fit on it, so he'd have a swivel and rolling chair to use at his ham radio station set-up.

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: mart on April 18, 2013, 02:29:36 PM

Quote from: Ipcress on April 18, 2013, 12:46:57 PM

Mixed woods ?! Looks like a mixed chair. Something Dorothy threw together for the munchkins.

It is a mixed chair !! Base was added to a 60`s era Colonial dining chair !! We had the same set but darker finish !! You could get dark or light stain !!

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: bigwull on April 18, 2013, 02:51:26 PM

Ipcress was being generous...it a bitsa,...at auction here,..you,d be lucky to get £5..=$7.50...me, I,d chop it up, ;D

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: Ipcress on April 18, 2013, 03:09:30 PM

It does look a tad small though ?

Title: Re: What wood?
Post by: bigwull on April 18, 2013, 03:18:19 PM

maybe he was a small man...