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Handle materials...Teak?
Can teak be stabilized? Or is it too oily?
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Stabilizing teak might only be marginally successful but it's naturally a pretty stable wood anyway. Still, I've sent a lot of wood out to be stabilized (like ironwood) where you're told not to expect much but it always seems to have some effect.
I think I still have quit a bit of teak around here if you decide you like it.... |
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Thanks Ray! I actually have a bunch around the shop, i do quite a it of boat works. I am actually in the process of restoring an old center console....I may press some of the teak I have, into service!
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Seems like teak would be a great wood for scales and especially appropriate for blades, fids etc. for boating/sailing use. Also no big deal re. maintenance.......gonna' be revarnishing all the wood on the boat every year, anyway. ( ;>)#
I see you're in Winter Park. I'm not to far away, Indialantic/Melbourne Beach area. And we both need a stethoscope on the job, eh? Ken W. |
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Ken....if you are in the help them because they can't help themselves business....then, yes! Been a medic for about 20 years. I have been with the fire department almost as long.......I spend a lot of time on the east coast, I fish extensively over there. I am cutting my teeth on some Kiridashi for my crew, as Xmas gifts......my daughter wants me to make a friction folder for her boyfriend.....ugh......I was thinking that teak would make a good set of scales.....
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Been an RN since '75. 20+ years of ICU and ER. You'd think with all the trauma we've seen we would know better than to play with sharp objects. ( ;>)#
Fortunately we're both well-connected for wound repair supplies, eh? And what's with that bad attitude about friction folders?? Shame on you!! Here's my one and only quality professional custom knife. It's what has enticed me to the fringes of this society of skilled artisans. One of Herb. K. Derr's friction folders. Something like 1400 layer birdseye Damascus that he makes himself, "seacow rib" scales(I'm presuming the extinct Stellar's arctic manatee), Herb's "bleeding heart" motif on the stainless washers as well as the tang's thumb button. Ken W. |
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