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Just a few bowls for the parent-type's 65th anniversary get together. A bread bowl from teak with a walnut foot. Then two same but different candy dishes. Both teak and mesquite. Just a little shuffling of rings to put the accents in different locations. Was hoping for a bit more color contrast but not too bad as is. Thanx for looking.
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I started this thread on Whats on your workbench but I thought I would move it into a new thread. My best friend and high school buddy runs a custom boat shop where he occasionally needs some custom teak work done. This time it’s a continuation on a boat I built a swim step for a while back. It amounts to one door/hatch, a hatch cover and a dashboard/instrument panel. I started this with a slab of 8/4 teak I bought. Today was milling the door and it’s components. It’s a basic rail and style shaker style. Paul
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Had to make a deviation from my current project to make a swim step for a friends boat. Teal is nice to work with but wow is it expensive. He paid $26.00/bd ft. It’s a fairly simple piece to construct but a lot of pieces to cut. Paul
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I got a call last week from "the building guy" at a local, 120 year old, classic stone church. He had two doors they had taken down during remodeling and did not just want to trash them. He thought they were solid teak. We wandered through the catacombs and found them and just about got them loaded when his comrade said, "There's two more over there." So I managed to squeeze the 4 doors that were supposed to be 7' tall but were 8' tall into my Odyssey. I need to do some hardware removal and cutting to ensure that it's really solid, then take to the woodworking club meeting to share with whomever. I think resawed in half, they'd make some nice small boxes. My grand-daughters could use some, I think. The second is a bunch of 12" dowel factory hickory cutoffs. One 20 lb bundle for $5 or 5 for $20. During my Christmas turkey smoking, I reached the end of my stockpile of hickory and apple wood. So I bought the 5 bundles figuring I'd save some for smoking, some for the shop and see if I can get rid of the rest at 10 for a dollar or so. Wish me luck. Waiting until the weather gets above 50 degrees so I can saw up the doors outside. Man, they are HEAVY.
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Good article on outdoor woods: https://www.woodmagazine.com/materials-guide/lumber/outdoor-lumber?cid=369791&did=369791-20190425&mid=20453126205&utm_campaign=wood-online_newsletter&utm_content=042519&utm_medium=email&utm_source=woodmagazine.com I probably have mentioned this before: In the town I moved from 3 years ago, they were looking to replace the wood in the park benches (cast frames). They went to the store that Steve Mickley (prior host of finishing at Wood Forums) and asked for some red oak. He told them, once he found out what they wanted it for, was that he'd put them on a two-year re-order schedule because it wouldn't last outside. He recommended Ipe. They sprung for it. One of the benches was in front of the park that was 100 yards away from my house there and I walked past it 4 or 5 times a week. It was a busy street and I'm sure it got regular sprays of salt-treated slush (the city used to send past all their plows, 5 of them, in a convoy during snowfalls). It aged to a beautiful gray, no great cracking,and no mossy residue that I've often seen on teak. It looked great after about 15 years of nothing. I also had a job once to replace a back support on an Adirondack chair. I had a piece of white oak that I graciously volunteered to do it in. The lady sort of stuck her nose in the air and said, "Oh, this is for a house in Indian Hill*, and the original is teak." "OK," I said. I went to see Steve and he graciously cut off a 2' section that was the right width for me and charged me the $20 for the piece. There were probably six cuts I had to make, all at some angle or bevel and the right dimension that I had to replicate. I think I charged a total of $40 for the material, the trip to the store and the half-hour of shop time. The lady was shocked that it was "so expensive." (sigh) Rich but cheap snob. * Indian Hill is the most affluent part of town where most of the C-level execs at the big companies live, most in 5000+ sq.ft. mansions and 10+ acre estates. I've since worked in a number of them that were some of the most expensive homes in the county.
