New BGE Teak Tables....

What type of wood is it ?

wow - that does look nice.

Nice looking table...did you get a price for a large?

Hi all, I think the table is made from a wood I know as Australian cypress, very beautiful wood. Teak isn't as bold. I have attached two pictures. One shows teak in its unfinished state. It's pretty brown and mellow. The second is the BGE table I built. It has an oil on it with a slight pigmentation. There is another wood that I am aware of sold commercially as African Teak. Its actually Afromosia -Pericopsis elata. It's a more yellow gold and has a ribbon figure to the grain. The pictures I have attached are of genuine teak -Tectona grandis D.P.N.

Teak is easier to spell?

I may be wrong,but I have bought a lot of genuine teak. I stated that it LOOKED like what I know as Australian Cypress. I based my assumption on practical experience . Again, perhaps I'm wrong, but I do know that much of the furniture people buy as mahogany is actually luan or Philippine Mahogany. Not a true mahogany. I never said anyone is lying and used the term "I think". So please don't take offense. Heres what I do know. The pictures I attached are of FEQ (First European Quality, it's the lumber grade ,like FAS or #2) teak. No sap, no knots and fairly consistent grain. Of course, my pictures show v-grooved and machine parts,but the smallest width before I machined the rough lumber was at least 6" and that's by grade. The picture of the other "teak" table has approximately 10 or 11 laminations in the top and appear to be about 3" in width with a lot of sap and large knots. Perhaps I should have started my guess by saying that if it is teak, it's a poor quality of teak (and this may very we'll be.), but I think that would have been rude. I have no dog in this fight! In my defense , the only mention in this tread was by Henapple saying it was teak. I apologies if I offended you or the product you sell, that was not my intention. Your first post made no mention to the material, had there been I would have kept my opinion to myself and not posted. I'm now going to take my ball and go home, fire up my egg and cook something - never again mentioning my TEAK table

I agree the table has a bunch of character.  Many woodworkers look for "character" in wood for their projects.  Character however, is pretty much a flaw in terms of the wood grading systems.  I have a bunch of black walnut that is just local that a mill cut up from someones tree.  It is certainly not a furniture grade.  But it can have checks/knots/wormholes/and other fissures filled with epoxy and stabilized.  These are really great qualities to see in a unique piece of furniture, and much of the wood that wouldnt' make the grade in the furniture industry will sell for more because of the character it has.  But it all depends on what you intend for the project, as to what grade of wood you need/want, but also the style your after.