My mother's mother was from Pembroke Dock, which used to be one of the Royal Dockyards. The town was I think built by French prisoners of war around the time of Trafalgar. Once day Dad was talking to Uncle George (actually my Great Uncle) and notice he was about to cut some teak up for firewood. George had rescued it from a skip! Miscellaneous planks, window sills, window frames and architraves had been made from wood salvaged from (probably) Victorian era warships as they were decomissioned. And now it's mine!
This will be a holding directory for items I make from it, an I need to include a picture of a tide clock I made around 1991 when I first heard about the teak.I have cut a couple of small blanks for bowls, smaller than I hoped, but the piece had a large split in it. I tried to bandsaw down the split, and broke two blades before I cleaved it apart and found an old Victorian nail quite curled into a spiral! Recovered wood can be exciting.
