November 21, 2010

I have two excuses for not getting much done this week: it's been raining and windy, and Carol is coming up for Thanksgiving, so a lot of time has been spent housecleaning. I did manage to pick up a few things I needed: a piece of polished stainless sheet to shield the teak bulkhead from the heat of the stove that has a burner that is too close to it, and the screw extractor that will hopefully allow me to recover from the calamity of broken screws compounded by a broken drill bit. The good news: this post will be blessedly short!

The only Circadian work accomplished this week was to finish rubbing out the polyurethane finish on the new jatoba wood cover for the ugly painted iron mast support post in the middle of the saloon. It's now ready to be installed. You can see in the photo that jatoba is a pretty good match for teak. The grab handle is teak; the rest is jatoba. (No staining or Photoshop tricks on the woods.) It's only partially assembled, since it has to be disassembled and then re-assembled around the post. If you have really sharp eyes, you might be able to detect the tiny light gray spots that are the bung holes for the screws. They are gray because because they have residual rottenstone powder in them and the bungs haven't been inserted yet.

Happy Thanksgiving all!