There may be some wooden that I can’t bear to discard, irrespective of how small the scrap. A fast survey of my wooden rack this morning revealed bundles of very previous quartered yellow pine, huon pine, Honduran mahogany and stacks of little teak offcuts.
Although it has been a pair years since I accomplished the initiatives for “Marketing campaign Furnishings,” the teak from that e book remains to be with me each day. I take advantage of it for making drawer runners, skids for device chests and the occasional folding stool. It is likely to be one other 10 years earlier than I do away with all of it.
As my teak is greater than 50 years previous, I ponder if it was harvested as per the next description (I believed I smelled elephants).
— Christopher Schwarz
“This (Tectona grandis) is the one true teak. As a constructive timber its solely rival is British oak. Aside, too, from the restricted shipments from Siam and Java, the world relies upon for its provides on the forests of India and Burma. The teak forests suffered significantly in the course of the Second World Battle. The worth of the timber had been acknowledged by the Previous East India Firm and was utilized by the naval authorities early within the nineteenth century. Thankfully nearly the entire areas in India containing teak are below authorities supervision….
“The tree, which can rise to 100 ft. or extra in top, is famous for its exceptionally giant and rough-surfaced leaves. These have been discovered as much as 18 ins. or 20 ins. in size, with a breadth of from 9 ins. to 14 ins. To natives they function an alternative choice to glasspaper….
“The tactic of extraction from the Indian teak forests are attention-grabbing. Bushes which might be deemed by the inspectors to be in a situation or of a measurement that warrants their elimination are first girdled; that’s, an incision is made spherical the bottom of the trunk of the standing tree, proper via the sap. This prevents the upward circulate of the life juices of the tree and successfully kills the expansion. It stays standing on this state for 2 years or extra, and within the interval the wooden loses an awesome a part of its weight. This operation is important. If felled straightaway, the logs, owing to their nice weight wouldn’t float; and, because the river currents are the one technique of transport, this process must be adopted. Consequent upon this technique of extraction, and owing to the prolonged interval it takes to arrange the wooden for market after it has been floated to the mills, all timber is in a well-seasoned situation by the point it reaches our personal and different markets. Skilled elephants, with an intelligence that’s mentioned to be nearly uncanny, are employed for dealing with the timber, and below the route of native labour carry out all of the guide work, dragging the heavy bushes all the way down to the water-courses and transferring the timber with their trunks whereas it’s being transformed on the mills and till it’s lastly shipped.”
— “Timbers for Woodwork” (Drake, 1969) edited by J.C.S. Brough
