Hi all. Does anyone know of someplace I can get a curtain pole that's actually made of oak, rather than a pine pole that's just stained an oak colour? The only place I know of is Habitat, but their poles are very contemporary, and also only 28mm in diameter whereas I'd like a traditional, 35mm pole.
If only I had thought about this before my parents had an oak tree felled and chopped up!
Cheers,
Est
Obtain an oak 2*2, run it a couple of times through a circular saw, then have at it with a plane?
Any furniture maker should be able to do that - doubt you'll find one off the shelf without paying Notting Hill prices though. It's saw and hand work to round it, with a rounding plane, rather than lathe turning. Any turner can knock up the end finials and the supports though.
Price also depends a bit on how long you want it, and whether you mind a central support. I certainly don't keep 2" oak boards on hand in the full length for the longest of curtain poles, and sawing it down from timber-framing sizes (6 inch squares and upwards) would be a bit wasteful. 6' in a span is easy, longer than that might want a bit of carpentry to join two lengths.
Personally I'd do it in ash, because it's stronger and the figure is identical to oak from any more than a few feet away. Staining is fine if it's just to change colour, but you need to have underlying figure that's from the same sort of tree.
do a lot of woden curtain poles. They are cheaper than even the discount curtain warehouse type places and even do poles up to 4m which I had been unable to find in the shops.
Yes, but they're not oak, are they. They're stained pine.
Could they legaly sell pine as: "High quality Light Oak wood pole" ?
This one doesnt look like pine, but not sure it looks exactly like Oak either:
Their crap pictures are doing them no favours. I've emailed them.
The material is described as "wood" and the colour as "Light Oak". "High quality" is accepted as advertising dross.
I think the antique pine might not really be antique.
Is it even Pine?
Could be Scots pine or Doug fir. These are the likely cheap options for something that's strong and straight-grained enough to make curtain poles.
Most white softwood "pine" is hemlock or spruce.
A bit like so-called "wrought iron", which is virtually always just black mild steel.
And "stained glass" which is stick-on lead strip and paint.
I sell stuff made out of both (the real versions). If only I had as many sales as I do people asking why one costs more than the "same thing" in B&Q.
Can a pane of real leaded lights contained within a sealed unit be acceptable for FENSA?
I think you'd need to fit it in addition to a standard unit - effectively triple glazing.
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