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kikar wood?

  • 25-01-2017 3:37pm
    #1
    janus83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭


    Hi does anyone know what kikar wood is and if it's a decent one for table top? Looking at a solid table in a reputable store in sale and it's solid kikar top with metal base. Salesman said teak when I asked him what kikar was. But when I Google they seem to be maybe different woods but I'm not 100% sure!


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  • #2
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,090 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Its apparently acacia, (I had to look it up), I have a couple of tables made from what I think is that timber, I think it is rather attractive.


  • #3
    joannedavies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 ✭joannedavies


    Yes, kikar is acacia and tables of it look really stylish!


  • #4
    janus83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭janus83


    joannedavies wrote: »
    Yes, kikar is acacia and tables of it look really stylish!

    It does look lovely, really warm colour to it. Do you know if it wears well? Also is it usual to have to apply oil to a solid table top a couple of times a year? Haven't bought or owned a decent table before!


  • #5
    joannedavies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 ✭joannedavies


    janus83 wrote: »
    joannedavies wrote: »
    Yes, kikar is acacia and tables of it look really stylish!

    It does look lovely, really warm colour to it. Do you know if it wears well? Also is it usual to have to apply oil to a solid table top a couple of times a year? Haven't bought or owned a decent table before!
    I just saw them in interiors, don't know them in use, unfortunately


  • #6
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,090 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I have one table coffee/tv table that I have had for a good while and just gets dusted and an occasional rub over with lavender polish ( I don't use silicone at all) the other table is similar but a less shiny finish and that gets the same treatment as does a bookcase. They all have slightly different degrees of finish, I prefer slightly matt looking timber rather than highly polished. If it is unpolished oil would be a good alternative, though I think it would need several coats; I'd go with the polish. I use oil on the kitchen counters and it works very well but it needs a gently fine sanding between coats when you are starting.

    You could ask in the store if the table is oiled, but any furniture salesman that does not know the difference between teak and acacia is not likely to know!


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  • #7
    janus83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭janus83


    good point about the salesman! Love the table and it appears really good quality, not sure about the chairs etc yet and sale is ending this weekend so think we'll stall until we move into the house and then look around again. This is like a whole new world to discover! ;-)


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