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Teak
By:Dean Trexel
Date: 10/29/1999, 5:25 pm
In Response To: Re: Rosewood/Cherrywood (Lennart Berlin)

Apparently teak is an oily wood and that's why gluing it is a problem. You'd have to test some first to see if epoxy takes to it. Epifanes makes a varnish especially for teak (it works for other woods as well) to deal with the oilyness. Given that we apply varnish on top of the epoxy, that isn't a benefit, but I used it on my first kayak because it doesn't need to be sanded between coats as long as you re-coat within 72 hours.

Dean

> In a book with facts about different wood I have read that teak, Tectona
> grandis, is pretty hard to glue. Glue newly worked surfaces.

> Lennart

Messages In This Thread

Rosewood/Cherrywood
Peter W. P. -- 10/29/1999, 11:22 am
Oxidization Requirements: Oxygen
Ed Valley -- 11/1/1999, 2:50 pm
Re: Oxidization Requirements: Oxygen
Rehd -- 11/1/1999, 11:22 pm
Re: Oxidization Requirements: Oxygen
Tom Kurth -- 11/2/1999, 8:28 pm
Re: Oxidization Requirements: Oxygen
Rehd -- 11/2/1999, 11:08 pm
Re: Rosewood/Cherrywood
Jeff Ellsworth -- 10/30/1999, 11:58 am
Re: Rosewood/Cherrywood
Rehd -- 10/30/1999, 12:17 am
Re: Rosewood/Cherrywood
Lennart Berlin -- 10/29/1999, 4:48 pm
Teak
Dean Trexel -- 10/29/1999, 5:25 pm
Re: Rosewood/Cherrywood
Dale Frolander -- 10/29/1999, 1:49 pm