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Refinnishing exterior Teakwood
I am looking for info on refinishing the Teakwood on my pleasureboat.
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Refinnishing exterior Teakwood
It's ever so much fun. What else do you want to know? ;-)
-- Karin Conover-Lewis Fair and Balanced since 1959 klc dot lewis at centurytel dot net "Frank Isacson" wrote in message news:9u4%b.614396$X%5.586520@pd7tw2no... I am looking for info on refinishing the Teakwood on my pleasureboat. |
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Get Rebecca Witman's (Whitman?) book on refinishing teak.
-- Keith __ Would a fly without wings be called a walk? "Frank Isacson" wrote in message news:9u4%b.614396$X%5.586520@pd7tw2no... I am looking for info on refinishing the Teakwood on my pleasureboat. |
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 06:51:30 -0600, "Keith"
wrote: Get Rebecca Witman's (Whitman?) book on refinishing teak. A bit of a warning: Though one can do a good job using Whitman's book, some of the suggestions are, ummmm, not generally accepted professional finishing practice. Two items of note. She suggests using foam brushes. Foam brushes put on a very skimpy coat and they have no "feel." A foam brush will apply about 2/3 of a bristle brush. A high quality, yes-expensive, brush is much better. Also, she advocates using the black foam rollers. These actually put too much material. Better to use the yellow Tiz brand rollers. Also, techniques and practices are always evolving. She seems to be several years behind the times. Maybe she is no longer doing boats, but just writing about it. (?) One thing that is kind of funny. The pictures in her book are not necessarily her projects. In fact, one is a boat I did. Amateurs love her book; maybe the reason is her florid writing style. There is nothing howlingly wrong. It's just the some of her techniques are not used by the majority of professional finishers. There are better ways of doing things. |
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PCF-
I share your doubts about some of Ms. Wittman's methods. I'm eagerly awaiting your book. Seriously. Jim "P.C. Ford" wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 06:51:30 -0600, "Keith" wrote: Get Rebecca Witman's (Whitman?) book on refinishing teak. A bit of a warning: Though one can do a good job using Whitman's book, some of the suggestions are, ummmm, not generally accepted professional finishing practice. Two items of note. She suggests using foam brushes. Foam brushes put on a very skimpy coat and they have no "feel." A foam brush will apply about 2/3 of a bristle brush. A high quality, yes-expensive, brush is much better. Also, she advocates using the black foam rollers. These actually put too much material. Better to use the yellow Tiz brand rollers. Also, techniques and practices are always evolving. She seems to be several years behind the times. Maybe she is no longer doing boats, but just writing about it. (?) One thing that is kind of funny. The pictures in her book are not necessarily her projects. In fact, one is a boat I did. Amateurs love her book; maybe the reason is her florid writing style. There is nothing howlingly wrong. It's just the some of her techniques are not used by the majority of professional finishers. There are better ways of doing things. |
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:12:47 GMT, Jim Conlin
wrote: PCF- I share your doubts about some of Ms. Wittman's methods. I'm eagerly awaiting your book. Seriously. Jim I think that was a compliment. At any rate. I really don't think of myself as a varnisher/painter. I'm primarily a boatwright (and a web monkey in a parallel life) but because 95% of my work has been antique speedboats, I do much more finishing work than most marine carpenters. I'm a pretty fair varnisher. Paint, though, is much, much harder.Many people don't understand that. Varnish gets all the sighs of admiration. But one's eye is fooled by the grain of the wood. With paint, you are looking at _only_ the surface. I'm doing a 32 ft. Chris cruiser right now. I worked the paint up to the last coat. Actually I put on a couple coats which I thought were the last coats but were not good enough. Sooooo, I called in the best guy with a brush that I know about in the Seattle area, Kim Lazarre. I call him the zen master of brush work. He did a wonderful job. He could paint a car with a brush and it would look great. (Actually in the old days, cars were painted with brushes. There were special car painting brushes.) Painting is a matter of concentration and sticking strictly to a routine. Kim has a lot of insights. He's the guy that should write a book. "P.C. Ford" wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 06:51:30 -0600, "Keith" wrote: Get Rebecca Witman's (Whitman?) book on refinishing teak. A bit of a warning: Though one can do a good job using Whitman's book, some of the suggestions are, ummmm, not generally accepted professional finishing practice. Two items of note. She suggests using foam brushes. Foam brushes put on a very skimpy coat and they have no "feel." A foam brush will apply about 2/3 of a bristle brush. A high quality, yes-expensive, brush is much better. Also, she advocates using the black foam rollers. These actually put too much material. Better to use the yellow Tiz brand rollers. Also, techniques and practices are always evolving. She seems to be several years behind the times. Maybe she is no longer doing boats, but just writing about it. (?) One thing that is kind of funny. The pictures in her book are not necessarily her projects. In fact, one is a boat I did. Amateurs love her book; maybe the reason is her florid writing style. There is nothing howlingly wrong. It's just the some of her techniques are not used by the majority of professional finishers. There are better ways of doing things. |
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Refinnishing exterior Teakwood
I am looking for info on refinishing the Teakwood on my pleasureboat.
Depends what finish - if varnish, then strip off all the old stuff. Give it a precautionary wipe with white spirit, or better still acetone to degrease/desoil the teak. Then put on 5 coats of a pure Tung oil varnish - such as Le Tonkinois and Jotun do one - not a normal International/boat/marine varnish that always has a thinner in it. That will last a good 5 years. |
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