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[Alan]

In my garden is this big pile of teak bench tops:

They have been there for two years and as the cover keeps blowing off I'd like to store them elsewhere but elsewhere is full of this:

These "offcuts" in my woodstore are all teak and mahogany and I'm considering donating them to HBBR people (maybe a donation to charity) as I'll never use it all, but it would be a logistical nightmare and probably not economical to post individual pieces so I'm wondering if anyone would like to share their thoughts on how, or wether to distribute good wood to the needy.

As  a guide, the longest bit is mahogany about 7ft and curved; the four pieces on right are teak about 1.125"/28mm thick and about 5ft long. There is also some blue extruded foam and a few bits of oak and there is more than can be seen in this image. It is all university scrap and would have ended up as landfill or CHP fuel If I didn't bring it home! I suppose the first thing I'll have to do is make an inventory.

[Port-Na-Storm]

Alan, you could always hold a car boot sale at Beale Park.

What part of the country are you in?

[Alan]

I'm in SE London/NW Kent.
A Beale car boot would be good for the "customers" but I'm not sure I could transport it all along with a boat I hope to enter in the CTC. If I change to an estate car before then it might work. Or I could pile in as much as would fit.

[Paul H (admin)]

Alan,

Some long thin hardwood would be ideal for capping the remains of MilliBee's bilge cases. Also her out-whales are painted pine which has suffered over the years - some form of hardwood capping would be ideal (but the total length would be just under 9m)

If enough of us are interested maybe we could organise a pick-up of your hardwood selection and pass pieces along at each meet. Who is interested?

-Paul

[Timmo]

Just pickd up a new utility trailer that will accommodate the wood quite well with front and rear folded down so happy to assist in transportation. Could also make space to store some for a while if it helps; though my location in North Oxfordshire is not most central for many of the HBBR membership.

Tim

On 30 Dec 2013, at 22:55, Paul (admin) [via UK HBBR Forum] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Alan,

Some long thin hardwood would be ideal for capping the remains of MilliBee's bilge cases. Also her out-whales are painted pine which has suffered over the years - some form of hardwood capping would be ideal (but the total length would be just under 9m)

If enough of us are interested maybe we could organise a pick-up of your hardwood selection and pass pieces along at each meet. Who is interested?

-Paul

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[Alan]

Tim, thanks for your kind offer of help with transport; I'll bear that in mind. It's also given me the idea of looking for friendly neighbours with trailers.
Paul, haven't been able to do any inventory yet but I have plenty of pieces which are long enough and wide enough to cover (presumably the underwater slot) of your bilge cases but they would probably have to be split in thickness to follow the curve of the hull, on a table saw. Also plenty for outwales but would need ripping to size then scarfing.

[momist]

Alan, "split in thickness" is technically known as "resaw" or re-sawn, and is best done on a large band saw with the correct fence arrangement.  Manual re-saw is very hard work, and generally much less accurate, although a good quality (antique) rip saw helps.  Very long planks can be re-sawn with a frame saw, something like a bow saw but with the blade in the middle. That is also very hard work.
Going part way through from each side on a table saw works for most smaller sizes, and is the easiest.

[Alan]

Momist, thanks, and I'm suitably embarrassed for not knowing what "resaw" meant.
These floorboards for a grp boat were resawn from teak benchtops: I got three planks from the 28mm thickness of the boards and the cuts were made from both sides as the saw was too small to go through the 95mm width in one go.

[momist]

Sorry, I didn't intend embarrassment!  Woodworking is a hobby.  Your floorboards look beautiful.  I hope your good wood goes to a good home.

[Alan]

Home built chaps; I just rediscovered this thread of mine when searching for something else so thought I would let you know what happened to all that teak, as I don't think I mentioned it here, apart from what went into skin-on-teak Isolde. The huge pile under the tarpaulin was all sold for charity via ebay about two years ago. It raised £1650 which all went to Mines Advisory Group who remove landmines and teach demining. So a furniture maker and a guy restoring an old motor cruiser got good wood, and people a lot poorer than us got some of their land back for growing food.