Massaranduba fence

[wroughtn_harv]

Yup, that got your attention http://www.reale.com.br/massa.htm

It's pretty tuff stuff. It didn't take me long to grab a face mask when rabbeting it. And I've just about resigned myself to wear gloves handling it. The splinters aren't nice.

This is the set up in the shop. The router table with the rabbeting bit is on the left. And the chop saw with a new superfine cutting blade is on the right.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

The pickets run horizontal. Each picket is rabbeted top and bottom, cut to length, drilled, countersunk, and then oiled with teak oil.

This is some rabbeted stock and one that's just been oiled.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

This is the back or ugly side of the fence installation.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

And the good side.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

At this area we only have four panels. Each panel has only forty pickets.

But it is a ton of labor.

I know.

It's already been explained to me that I'm a weldor and should be happy with doing only that.

I guess I'm just greedy. If it's got grain and personality then we have something in common.

 

[MF1455v]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I guess I'm just greedy. )</font>

Greedy, maybe! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Think I would call it versatile.

That sure is a nice piece of work. I just wish my pocket book could keep up with all the inspiration I get from seeing your projects.

O.K.. Now I'm the greedy one! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Bird]

It's certainly pretty, and I'd never heard of that stuff before.

 

[bgoodman]

That certainly is a beautiful fence.

 

[PineRidge]

Another great looking project Harv.

 

[jinman]

Harv, that fence looks pretty darn good from where I "stand." How do you think it will age? Will the oil collect dust? How about our dry climate and summer sun? I'm also curious about what they will put in for landscaping between the curb and the fence. Surely they wouldn't put in shrubs that would cover the fence and make oiling and maintenance almost impossible. Sprinkler heads would also surely wash the oil out of the wood and give it a chlorine bleaching.

See, as usual, I have more questions than answers. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif