Comments on: A Nutty Way of Telling Red from White Oak http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodworking_blog/index.php/a-nutty-way-of-telling-red-from-white-oak/ Tue, 14 May 2013 23:55:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Joe http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodworking_blog/index.php/a-nutty-way-of-telling-red-from-white-oak/comment-page-1/#comment-161173 Joe Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:22:00 +0000 http://woodworkersjournal.com/woodworking_blog/?p=3580#comment-161173 Too Funny ! I grew up in New Jersey so watching the Squirrels put away nuts for the winter was a ritual of fall. I had not idea they were choosing which ones … hey their squirrels, they run ¾ of a way across a road and when they see you coming in a car they reverse and run back they way they came ¾ of the way across the road.

A few facts: New Jersey made the Red Oak its state tree in 1950 a few years before I was born, and New Jersey also boasts that their oldest White Oak in Basking Ridge was a place George Washington used to stop sit in the shade and have lunch.

From a wood workers stand point I prefer red oak for its warmer tones and like the squirrel I can always dig up a piece in the winter to work on.

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