What Is Red Oak Lumber?

The red oak tree gets its name because its leaves turn red in autumn. Widely distributed throughout the eastern United States. Now it is mainly imported sawn wood flakes for domestic furniture timber market.

Red oak

Red oak, white to light brown, heartwood pink brown. The appearance of red oak is often associated with

The eastern United States is widely distributed.

The scientific name of oak (also known as oak) in wood science is QUERCUS SPP (Latin meaning "excellent tree species"), which is widely distributed in large areas of the northern hemisphere. There are more than 300 species. The oak in the market is roughly divided into two categories: red oak and white oak. However, the red oak is not red and the white oak is not white. The color difference is not very obvious. The main point of the difference is the difference in tube holes and forest rays in wood science. For example, there is a dipping body in the hole of the white oak tube. This characteristic makes white oak widely used in wine storage barrels abroad. It is the world-famous oak barrel material. Red oak cannot be used as a barrel.

Oak is widely used for decorating materials and making furniture because of its excellent material properties: oak has a hard and straight texture, a coarse structure, a light color and beautiful texture, a high mechanical strength, and abrasion resistance, but the wood is not easy to dry and saw and cut. Oak is widely used in decoration materials, furniture materials, sports equipment, shipbuilding materials, vehicle materials, flooring materials, etc. The slices of white oak and red oak are also ideal for the production of veneered plywood. The pattern also has the difference between straight and horizontal lines. The straight lines are more beautiful and the price is slightly more expensive. ^[1]