[C38] Teak

[Joseph Launie]

Larry,
     Must not fool with mother nature. Teak is an oily wood.  The 
perfectly wrong thing to do is seal the outside with varnish or 
polywhatever.  That prevents the wood from acting naturally and will be 
attacked from the inside from the teal oil and outside from the sun or 
other light. I had a number of drinks at Marina del Rey with an expert 
teak varnisher.
He explained all this and told me that people paid him to ruin their 
teak with varnish,

     So - remove any varnish that is there - clean the teak and OIL it.  
This will permit the natural teak oil to do its thing and replenish it. 
We have oiled the teak on Macavity for 20 years - inside and out. Joe
On 12/2/2011 3:29 PM, Larry Malmberg wrote:
> I think I want to strip my teak in the head and coat it with either varnish
> or polyurethane.  Any suggestions on how to get all the teak oil out of the
> wood and which would be best, varnish or poly?
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> Best regards,
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> Larry Malmberg
> Team Hassle
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