The pleasure of redoing the brightwork-gctid364541

[Woodsong]

I love combining woodworking with boating.

Spent yesterday afternoon sanding the teak in our cockpit. It was beat up and greyed out and did not look good at all. Sanded her down and she already looks better!! Soon a bunch of epiphanes will get her looking proper. :arr

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[Go Aweigh2452]

Definitely looking great...

[johnrupp]

Looking good, be sure to post a few pictures when your done.

[Guest]

Oh wow, what a difference in the photos 'before' and 'after'. Or more accurately 'during'. She is looking really good, my friend!

[Guest]

It definitely looks better. What do you plan to treat it with?

[Guest]

i just took the ladder steps, and little wood inserts off the boat to re-do again. I hate brightwork!

Id rather just have all fiberglass as I find it a lot easier to just polish. Although when completed the woodwork does give it that nice finishing touch.

[Guest]

Woodsong wrote:
I love combining woodworking with boating.

Spent yesterday afternoon sanding the teak in our cockpit. It was beat up and greyed out and did not look good at all. Sanded her down and she already looks better!! Soon a bunch of epiphanes will get her looking proper. :arr

Just got finished up yesterday doing mine, plus all the other wood. took me 2 weeks plus.

Im curious, what are you going to finish it with? I used bristol!

Ed

[Woodsong]

Well compared to my trawler, our 4550 has just a smattering of exterior teak so it feels a lot easier to take care of.

I used Epiphanes "Wood Finish" on my trawler and I liked it. It is like Bristol finish but is not a 2 part finish but, like Bristol, can be installed with multiple coats a day with no need for sanding in between them:

http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1%7C10918%7C296162%7C10952%7C311505&id=13027

It's a good hard finish and I personally like it better than cetol and on my trawler I found all I needed was a refreshing coat about once every 12-18 months.

[Guest]

Very, very, very nice!

That looks great!

[Woodsong]

finally got 4 coats of epifanes down....about 6 more to go if I don't run out of steam!! Nothing better than fresh varnish!!

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[Guest]

That looks really good.

I did mine a couple years ago, it turned out nice also. Now it's time to touch up some spots and add a few coats before it gets to the point that I'll have to sand it all down to raw wood again.

Being a professional Cabinetmaker obviously makes me a lover of wood.......but...... I gotta tell ya that sanding is one of the last things I want to do on my days off.:thumb