Thanks guys .the corners beat me up . It probably would have looked better to miter the corners but I couldn't figure it out . Still a long ways to go . Thanks for the motivation . Bow roller /windlass platform next . Working on wheel house doors now . The teak pile of lumber is getting smaller .
Second coat Epifanes thinned 25% .First coat was thinned 50 % . My wife is doing the varnish work . Weather conditions have been spotty to do varnish work . Today was good tomorrow won't be good .I think she has it figured out ,don't rush it and wait for good weather .I need to get her a real brush ,I think she's ready .Tried two more pics but they wouldn't go through .
And another .I'm pretty proud of her finish work If you can't tell by now .the center of this partition is epoxy coated and will get primed and painted .
At least your getting on with some beautiful finish work. So much of my own is filthy dirty, dusty, scrungy, fundamental stuff that I don't get to see something fine looking and polished forever. Anyway, great work. Winter is almost over, you know.
Now it's time to put the rail on for good ! RT You timed Carley Simon's "Anticipation "just right . We don't know what tomorrow might bring ! I had a little set back but I'll be slipping in to overdrive real soon .
Another section down on each side . Being that the rail is laminated teak strips I may need to park it in the sun a few days to get the different shades of teak to blend before varnishing . I want to try to avoid that butcher block look
Hope you have better luck than I did with those joints. Mine were cracked after painting....maybe within a month. I'm about to clean them out and try something else. Looks great!
Larry are you talking about end grain joints or where I laminated the strips together to make the rail width . On the end joints I'm using TDS SIS 440 and on the laminations I used West Systems . I hope it doesn't fall apart either . I'm not sure that the Epifanes is going to do well over the top of the TDS but I shouldn't have to much flex going on. TDS doesn't recommend varnishing over the top of it they say the flex of the joint breaks the bond of the varnish and in time the varnish separates at the joint . But I think they are mainly talking sailboat rails with all the stress from rigging . I was going to not caulk the joints until after varnish but got to that point and said screw it and went on with the caulk .
Thanks Eric . When I bought the teak I bought all 5" wide to save on cost . I was thinking that William did not have that much curve but I would have wound up with a lot of short pcs and a bunch of joints . I decided to rip the lumber off the edge and epoxy back together with a jig to the curve . The only waste was the saw kerf from ripping . Some of the lengths are 9 ft long .