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   hammer1 | Nov 28, 2004 05:58pm | #1

   They are different. Quarter sawn, a special milling technique, exposes the medulla rays which gives the flake like look. Tiger only occurs in some trees, it looks like tiger stripes and is not that common. The tiger can be seen in plain sliced as well as quarter sawn. With oak, it is not often separated out like it is with maple and some other species.

   Beat it to fit / Paint it to match

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   notDusty | Nov 28, 2004 07:30pm | #2

                           rick ,

                 When you said you have a hard time matching this type of Oak , it made me remember when doing restoration and repair how hard it was to match . I could get a similar grain but when stained the match was off . What I learned was with furniture of the past much of the figured Oak was Eastern White Oak not Red Oak . I then learned to distinguish between the two and life was good .

                                                     dusty

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   Rickk | Nov 30, 2004 03:53pm | #3

   Thanks for the info, I have bought some Qt. sawn red & white. I'm doing pigment & dye samples, I will know tomorrow.Thanks again      Rickkk