Yup, that got your attention http://www.resale.com.br/massa.htm
It's pretty tuff stuff. It didn't take me long to grab a face mask when rabbeting it. And I've just about resigned myself to wear gloves handling it. The splinters aren't nice.
This is the set up in the shop. The router table with the rabbeting bit is on the left. And the chop saw with a new superfine cutting blade is on the right.
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The pickets run horizontal. Each picket is rabbeted top and bottom, cut to length, drilled, countersunk, and then oiled with teak oil.
This is some rabbeted stock and one that's just been oiled.
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This is the back or ugly side of the fence installation.
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And the good side.
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At this area we only have four panels. Each panel has only forty pickets.
But it is a ton of labor.
I know.
It's already been explained to me that I'm a weldor and should be happy with doing only that.
I guess I'm just greedy. If it's got grain and personality then we have something in common.
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( Harv, that fence looks pretty darn good from where I "stand." How do you think it will age? Will the oil collect dust? How about our dry climate and summer sun? I'm also curious about what they will put in for landscaping between the curb and the fence. Surely they wouldn't put in shrubs that would cover the fence and make oiling and maintenance almost impossible. Sprinkler heads would also surely wash the oil out of the wood and give it a chlorine bleaching.
See, as usual, I have more questions than answers)
When you grow up Jim I think you'll make someone a heckuva wife. You've got the attitude.
According to the landscape architect he won't have sprinklers hitting the fence. I asked him. In a rather proprietary manner I might add.
The dust might be an issue. I'm not sure how long dust is allowed to hang around this place. But the maintenance supervisor is familiar with the oil I'm using, Watco Teak Oil, he uses it on his boat, and he understands it's a maintenance issue and he'll deal with it.
If I do a good enough job it will inspire them to keep it up.
I must confess to a feeling of guilt here. There is some real pleasure in handling fine wood. Each board is different, they don't all rabbet the same, drill the same, nor do they accept the oil the same. A couple are perfect in just about everyway. Some others have more character than perfection.
Each one is beautiful. And when the oil is applied their personality comes out.
Lucky me.
But darn, they're heavy.
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Today was a Celebrex day. Up at five, on the road at six, and on the job at seven thirty.
I got to finish the one panel and do another.
Here's the ugly side again.
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And the good side after today.
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I will be doing something to trim it out. This is a typical big time construction situation. Before a concept can be given the go ahead it has to be drawn, drawn down, drawn out, and drawn through the bushes.
I guess with so many fingers in the pie everyone wants to make sure of the idenity of the one they're licking.
So I'll draw it out. They'll like it. I'll do it.
When I mention a Celebrex day I mean a tough one on the old body. Each horizontal board means at least four trips up the ladder. That gets old real quick. Especially at my age.
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Well Don the job is done. There's some paperwork left, but I trust them.
Here's a shot of the trim I came up with. It's really very simple, and I'd like to think, effective.
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It's amazing what a little landscaping can do to make the fence look good.
And of course, when the greenery is in everything looks a little more finished.
This is the finished fence. Short but tall, and very very very pricey.
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When I said I got to make the gates, I wasn't kidding.
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Did I mention there was some gates?
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We got to make the gates and install the wood. Here's another shot of the finished product.
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There was some confusion at first for some people on why I had cane bolts (drop rods) on opposite sides of the gates
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The concept was galvanized framework and wood filler.
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There were a total of five gates, two of them galvanized square material with wood filler.
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Then there was the chainlink ones. This wasn't just chainlink. It's nine gauge minimesh with powdercoated framework.
It was a ton of fun, literally.
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Another shot of the wood and galvanized gates.
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