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Quality of teak: Teak is available in a variety of grades, A being the best and highest quality with B, C, and D following in descending quality. The grade is determined by where on the tree the ...
Teak furniture is an investment, and while it's robust enough to face quite a few overnight stints in the rain and snow, it’s a good idea to purchase a cover for the furniture or plan to store ...
Teak wood is used for making boats, furniture, and other things which require resistance to the elements. Teak is used for outdoor furniture but is not recommended for full exposure to sunlight. Being more expensive than most other woods, teak furniture has become something of a status symbol. Not only is it common for a teak bench, chair, or ...
Tectona grandis (common teak) is by far the most important, with a wide distribution in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, China, India, and Pakistan. Tectona hamiltoniana (Dahat teak) is a local endemic species confined to Burma, where it is endangered.
Teak (Tectona grandis) is a tropical hardwood tree species in the family Lamiaceae.It is a large, deciduous tree that occurs in mixed hardwood forests. Tectona grandis has small, fragrant white flowers arranged in dense clusters at the end of the branches.
In the 1960s there was a large shift in forest use in Thailand. Deforestation began to increase, but not due to the commercial uses of teak forests in the north, but rather increased agricultural exports from the south. In the late-1960s the Thai government began to grant logging concessions, which required re-planting. They were poorly managed.
In the south of Myanmar, major teak forests existed in the Pegu and Tenasserim Hills. Other notable areas of teak growth include the Arakan Mountains in the west of the country and the Shan Hills in the East. [4] While teak is still abundant in many of these locations, native forests have been significantly threatened in the late twentieth century.
My experience planing both teak and iroko is that the plane blunts very fast on iroko, due I had heard to the presence of silica (I spend more time sharpening the blade than I do planing!) whereas the blade glides through teak literally like hard cheese, a beautiful, satisfying experience.