Oak

Oak is wide-spread enough in our country, and his wood differs by high durability and firmness against rotting. She has very beautiful texture and color, is well bent and is easily enough processed. For giving to wood of oak of more high decorative qualities, she is often subjected by exterminates or poisoning. Under exterminates understand long-term self-control of him in water, from what wood acquires the silky darkly-violet colouring. Exterminates multiplies hardness of wood, but here promotes its fragility. An oak bark and sawdusts is applied for the impregnation of other breeds of wood, that changes their natural colouring. For this purpose the wooden purveyances maintain in decoction from the mixture of the shredded bark and shaving of trunk of oak, satiating them by the tannic matters. It is needed to take into account at the choice of method of finishing of oak good, that this wood badly adopts spiriting varnishes and polish. The promoted hardness of wood of oak hampers driving in him of nails and screwing up of screws.