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   JamesS | Mar 27, 2008 04:39am | #1

   bstevens123            What do you mean by "reclaimed"?   When I go north I can get

   un-reclaimed teak. There are several boat builders up there that donate "extra" wood to the senior center woodshop.

   James

    

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   bstevens123 | Mar 27, 2008 05:14am | #2

   That would probably work too. By reclaimed I mean previously used. Anything thats not being freshly cut.

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   Lataxe | Mar 27, 2008 05:50pm | #3

   Britany,

   I've got a lot of teak out of old school and universsity chemistry bench tops.  Teak and sometimes afromosia were used for chemistry benches because both are highy resistant to acid and alkali burns.

   Old bench tops look terrible, as they're covered in stains, burns, scratches and so forth.  Also, they have sink and tap holes in them.  Because they look so bad, anyone renovating a lab thinks them worthless and fit only for the bonty or landfill.  How wrong they are.

   If you can discover any labs nearby, ask them when they plan to remodel or refurbish.  If you get the chance obtain that wood!  It tends to be around 5/4 thick and made up of planks glued up with splines, as the oily teak is not too keen on glue. 

   The planks I've got from such bench tops varied between 6 and 14 inches wide.  Once you've cut out the sink and tap holes then re-sawn to get rid of the splined joins, you end up with a fine pile of planks, from 3 - 10 foot in length, depending on the source-lab and its configuration.  Take 1/16" off the surface of these planks and you will find pristine, well-dried timber often of prime, clear quality.

   Lataxe, a scavenger