Smoked oak: color grows from within

A piece of fumed oak. It is not surface-stained, but rather the entire piece of wood reacts with ammonia gas in a sealed space, causing the tannins to oxidize and the color to deepen from the inside out; therefore, when planed, the inside is also dark, and the edges and cross-section will not reveal a light-colored core. The color is deep brown with a hint of grayish-purple, and the contrast between the light and dark areas of the wood grain is softer than that of natural oak. The surface is only treated with a matte hard wax oil. Avoid: using surface-stained imitation fumed wood, allowing light-colored core to show at the cross-section and edges, making the color too uniform and lacking depth, and applying lacquer to create a film.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一片燻過的橡木。它不是表面染色,而是整塊木材在密閉空間裡與氨氣反應,單寧被氧化,顏色從內到外一起變深;因此刨開之後裡面也是深的,邊緣與斷面不會露出淺色的芯。顏色是深褐帶一點灰紫,木紋的深淺對比比原色橡木更柔和。表面只上霧面硬蠟油。避免:使用表面染色的仿燻木、讓斷面與邊緣露出淺色、把顏色做得過於均勻失去層次、上漆做出漆膜。