Model Boat Mayhem

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Title: Isn't wood great !!!???
Post by: funtimefrankie on June 28, 2009, 05:47:46 pm
This is a length of timber I collected off the beach about ten years ago, it's been in the garden ever since.

The other week I thought I sand one face and put a bit of varnish on it. It came up brilliantly.

After ten years in the garden and who knows how long in the Irish sea, before that may part of a ship of the line,

Who knows... what stories could it tell.


It's about 9 inches square by four foot long.
Title: Re: Isn't wood great !!!???
Post by: Bryan Young on June 28, 2009, 06:20:32 pm
Nice to see. Probably part of an old jetty or (coal) staithe rather than a ship. Still worth having though. BY.
Title: Re: Isn't wood great !!!???
Post by: Timo2 on June 28, 2009, 06:20:57 pm
Hi

 Looks like lump  of   Eucalyptus marginata ( Jarrah )

   Timo2
Title: Re: Isn't wood great !!!???
Post by: sinjon on June 28, 2009, 06:32:39 pm
What's it doing in the garden !!!!

Colin
Title: Re: Isn't wood great !!!???
Post by: funtimefrankie on June 28, 2009, 06:53:55 pm
What's it doing in the garden !!!!

Colin
I put my coffee cup on it while watch the fish in the pond :-))
Title: Re: Isn't wood great !!!???
Post by: Bunkerbarge on June 28, 2009, 10:17:33 pm
Funny you should mention Jarrah, I have a number of pieces of furniture made from it, one is the dining table and another is a unit under the TV hiding all the DVD gubins etc.

The wood is actually reclaimed from railway sleepers imported from South Africa, who are currently going through a program of removing them and replacing them with concrete ones.  I have often wondered just where the sleepers were located that I now eat my dinner off.  The furniture is therefore all very individual and even, in the case of the TV unit, made to order by a firm luckily very local to me.

I'm with you guys and love wood with a passion.
Title: Re: Isn't wood great !!!???
Post by: Patternmaker on June 29, 2009, 09:07:18 am
Wood is great, with a little imagination a lot of things can be created,
I made this a few years ago from a neighbours cut down cherry tree