One thing about Oak that I don't understand is that it shouldn't be suffering that much of a shortage compared to other woods, but it is. I can buy Fir and Teak by the thousands, lucky to find a port with 100 Oak.
I think one of the main problems is that a lot of people are, for some reason or another, using Oak as their wood of choice for Frame Parts, when they really should be using something like Teak or Fir, especially when they are just making Trader's Cutters for XP.
I could be wrong, obviously I don't have information on the total production amounts for the different wood types, maybe there is just more Teak and Fir getting produced, which would be a problem, since outside of Frame Parts, Oak is the most used, followed by Fir, but it isn't used to the point of annihilating stocks compared to other woods if people were using Fir and Teak for Frame Parts.