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Posted by David Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 15:27:08 :
In Reply to: I was wonder what process they used originally posted by 48pw [72.152.54.184] on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 12:42:33 :
Oak flooring is usually red oak. The woods look similar, but smell different. The main difference is that white oak is inherently very rot-resistance whereas red oak rots about as fast as any wood there is. Maybe for a carryall bed I would use red oak, since it would mostly stay dry, but not for a pickup bed. All the old military side boards and troop seats are white oak too. White oak doesn't really need any preservative treatment. I would imagine they just gave it a good soaking with boiled linseed oil after all the pieces were cut and drilled. Linseed oil has the advantage of helping to protect the wood from drying, shrinking, and cracking, as well as from moisture, though it's not a "preservative" per se. I'm leery of anything I read nowadays that says that some process "uses caustic chemicals" or something like that, since most of the time the writer doesn't even know what they used and to most writers nowadays ALL chemicals are "toxic".