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This German article states that oak is highly in demand these days and prices may are going up. Reasons stated are a trend to rustic furniture.
https://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Eichenholz-wird-zur-Mangelware-article20496260.html
There are efforts to increase the number of planted oak trees.
I’m not sure how applicable this is to the UK or overseas, though.
– David
8 July 2018 at 8:03 am #549202Hej,
Thanks for sharing this!
Personal – perhaps confounded – observation is that oak furniture is pretty ubiquitous in UK, both in traditional domestic style and Scandinavian (Danish mainly) design. Compared to Norway and Sweden, prices are lower, though cheap doesn’t come into mind, and one can get European oak. North American “stuff” appears to become more available, and that is perhaps indicating a shortage on European supply.
/Sven-Olof
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The Anglification Nachfragenboom wouldn’t have pleased my German teacher of >50 years ago.Hi Sven-Olof,
I’m not overly concerned given that 1/3 of Germany’s area is covered with forest. There will be wood to work, if not oak, beech and pine or ash.
Regarding the word ‘Boom’, nowadays, it’s a loanword in German, it’s even in the ‘Duden’. 50 years ago, it probably wasn’t. That’s just how language works.
8 July 2018 at 9:35 pm #549218Hej,
Glad to read that I’m not the only one appreciating the qualities of birch and beech, and less happy with the increasing difficulties with finding suitable European oak.
(Fräulein Bülow, my German teacher, was rather 19th century [asking about her age would not have been compatible continued existence], and adamant on what was correct German language.)
/Sven-Olof.
- This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Sven-Olof Jansson. Reason: Freudain misspelling of beech as beach
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