All of the furniture in my bedroom is teak. (well, teak veneer)
I want to make a small cabinet for the bedroom. I don't want to use teak,
and think learning to veneer is a tad over my head at the moment.
What wood/stain is going to look okay with a room full of teak?
Presumably I should not lacquer the cabinet because none of the teak has
lacquer. What finish will be appropriate? I suppose some sort of oil, but I
know absolutely nothing about that. (except it is probably time to oil the
teak again)
Thanks.
Wade Lippman wrote:
> All of the furniture in my bedroom is teak. (well, teak veneer)
>
> I want to make a small cabinet for the bedroom. I don't want to use teak,
> and think learning to veneer is a tad over my head at the moment.
Besides, veneer sucks. I hate veneer. I never want to have anything to do
with veneer again. Bleah!
(Take *that* all you marquetry weirdos! ;)
> What wood/stain is going to look okay with a room full of teak?
Walnut goes with everything.
Rosewood would look really good too, though I say that never having seen
anything in the flesh that was made of rosewood. :)
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Wade Lippman writes:
> All of the furniture in my bedroom is teak. (well, teak veneer)
>
> I want to make a small cabinet for the bedroom. I don't want to use
teak,
> and think learning to veneer is a tad over my head at the moment.
If you want to match teak, then you are going to use teak.
There is simply nothing else like teak.
Learn to apply veneers, it's NBD.
Probably not what you wanted to hear, but,
HTH
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"Mary Ann & John" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Try ZAR they have a color teak that should do it .
> John
>
I see grain as being as important as color. What wood has teak's fine
featureless grain?
Wade Lippman <[email protected]> wrote:
: "Mary Ann & John" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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:> Try ZAR they have a color teak that should do it .
:> John
:>
: I see grain as being as important as color. What wood has teak's fine
: featureless grain?
I've seen a lot of flatsawn teak which is anything but featureless.
And most woods have straight grain when quartersawn.
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"Andrew Barss" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Wade Lippman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> : "Mary Ann & John" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> : news:[email protected]...
> :> Try ZAR they have a color teak that should do it .
> :> John
> :>
>
> : I see grain as being as important as color. What wood has teak's fine
> : featureless grain?
>
>
> I've seen a lot of flatsawn teak which is anything but featureless.
> And most woods have straight grain when quartersawn.
>
Well, mine is pretty featureless.
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:33:22 GMT, "Wade Lippman"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>All of the furniture in my bedroom is teak. (well, teak veneer)
>
>I want to make a small cabinet for the bedroom. I don't want to use teak,
>and think learning to veneer is a tad over my head at the moment.
>
>What wood/stain is going to look okay with a room full of teak?
>Presumably I should not lacquer the cabinet because none of the teak has
>lacquer. What finish will be appropriate? I suppose some sort of oil, but I
>know absolutely nothing about that. (except it is probably time to oil the
>teak again)
>
>Thanks.
>
I'm not at all concerned about wood matching. I have a pine bed and
dresser, maple chair, oak quilt rack and cherry nightstand in the
bedroom. It all seems to go together because of the Shaker design.
Cabinets do not need a lot of protection, so I'd use an oil finish.
Test a few pieces of wood to see results.
Actually, veneering is quite easy. But, assuming that you don't want to
tackle that, I wouldn't try to MATCH the teak look (I think that looks kind
of tacky) but instead try a wood that COMPLEMENTS it. I'd go with maple
(and you can check out the look together as most Danish furniture stores
sell teak and maple)...other choices, if you lean toward darker woods, would
be cocobolo, rosewood, or ebony.
"Wade Lippman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> All of the furniture in my bedroom is teak. (well, teak veneer)
>
> I want to make a small cabinet for the bedroom. I don't want to use teak,
> and think learning to veneer is a tad over my head at the moment.
>
> What wood/stain is going to look okay with a room full of teak?
> Presumably I should not lacquer the cabinet because none of the teak has
> lacquer. What finish will be appropriate? I suppose some sort of oil, but
I
> know absolutely nothing about that. (except it is probably time to oil the
> teak again)
>
> Thanks.
>
>