A good friend of mine has been asked to repair an old Teak garden bench that has quite a lot of sentimental value attached to it, unfortunately it had been left under a leaking gutter & unusually for teak had rotted.
He had saved the pieces that needed removing as he thought I'd be interested in them for pens.
It turns out that this bench had been made from wood reclaimed from RMS Arlanza (1912) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia which was built in 1912 & had been broken by Hughes Bolckow ship breaking company in 1938, he knew this as the bench bore a plaque stating that it had been made from the timbers of the said ship.
The rot whilst bad enough to cause the joints in the bench to break down wasn't so bad as to affect anything more than the surface.
Plenty enough to salvage some pen blanks from
He had saved the pieces that needed removing as he thought I'd be interested in them for pens.
It turns out that this bench had been made from wood reclaimed from RMS Arlanza (1912) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia which was built in 1912 & had been broken by Hughes Bolckow ship breaking company in 1938, he knew this as the bench bore a plaque stating that it had been made from the timbers of the said ship.
The rot whilst bad enough to cause the joints in the bench to break down wasn't so bad as to affect anything more than the surface.
Plenty enough to salvage some pen blanks from