[Alberg30] teak on stern

[Gord Laco]

  I agree - a fine boatbuilder once told me "Make it too big & sand it down.  That's what God gave us belt sanders for."
He really said that.  
Gord KC426 Surprise
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alan P. Kefauver 
  To: public-list at alberg30.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 3:23 PM
  Subject: Re: [Alberg30] teak on stern


  Cut it oversize. mount it. jigsaw it to close tolerance. sand to final tolerance. use a router with a roundover bit to contour the edges. remove it and bed it with 4200 and reinstall.
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  On 2/7/2001 at 11:37 AM Lorelei23 at aol.com wrote: 
    Dear Bill. 

    The piece of teak I have is shaped like a milled piece of lumber.  It's 2" x 
    16".  The former owner gave me the wood as he was planning to replace the 
    stern piece himself; he just never got around to it.  He actually had a 
    cardboard pattern tacked to the wood, but the guy who is refinishing all my 
    deck wood is hestitant to have it cut by that pattern  because it has many 
    odd markings on it, i.e. up arrows, down arrows, etc.  We don't want to cut 
    the wood and find that it doesn't fit.   

    Some of the other information I have received from other owners includes: 

    Dwalker at cemcocpa.com (Dan Walker) :  the stern piece is actually three 
    layers, one on top of the other mitered and fit together.  I  saw a "younger" 
    boat and its stern piece had spacers between the deck and the top piece which 
    was cheaper and allowed for water drainage off the stern.  This would be 
    cheaper but not as nice to look at. 

    I have no idea that this will be helpful information, but it's all I have.   
    Any thoughts you might have on replacement would be appreciated.  I wish I 
    had the old teak the former owner took off the boat so I would not be at such 
    a disadvantage in replacing it.   

    Sincerely,    Lorelei
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