It doesn't take very long when cutting out the various margin pieces of a teak deck before you're knee deep in offcuts. Of course, some of the pieces are large enough to keep for later, but as the bits get ever smaller, sooner or later they finish up in the bin. Which is irritating. I can't stand throwing anything away.
It also became apparent that the 400 brass screws I'd bought to fix the deck pieces down with, were fast disappearing - into the deck. Each one requiring its hole counterboring and then plugging. Checking out the price of 3/8" diameter teak plugs, they are currently working out at 5 or 6 quid a hundred.
So the current regime is, having purchased a 3/8" Veritas plug cutter from The Axminster Tool Centre, an hour each evening is spent cutting plugs out of scrap teak and storing them in a tub. Its amazing how small a piece of teak you can get a plug out of if you're really tight like me. I can cut about 50 an hour, so it'll take a week or so and there's nothing on the telly at this time of year.
[Now Playing: "Layla (unplugged)" by Eric Clapton]
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