{"id":688,"date":"2007-06-27T02:27:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T06:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/06\/27\/reclaimed-teak-furniture\/"},"modified":"2010-10-05T01:34:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T05:34:16","slug":"reclaimed-teak-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/06\/27\/reclaimed-teak-furniture\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaimed teak furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>We have a hand crafted teak table.  It&#8217;s made out of recovered or reclaimed teak.   Since teak is a protected wood in many countries, yet still a product that many nations continue to rely on to fuel their economy some manufacturers of teak furniture have taken to using recovered teak wood.  I really like the fact that this beautiful table that we purchased is made from reclaimed wood.<\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Our table was created out of what looks like thick teak branches that might have fallen to the forest floor, and perhaps part of a tree trunk &#8211; hopefully one that had been cut many years in the past.<\/p>\n<p>It has a very irregular shape, but it&#8217;s absolutely beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any good photos of it right now, but I&#8217;m going to be refinishing the table shortly so I&#8217;ll take some before and after photos so you can see how weathered it looks after sitting in my garden through the summer and how I rejuvenate it each year with a coat of danish teak oil.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>I just went looking online to see if I could find anything quite like it so I could show you how beautiful my table is, but I was unsuccessful.   I can&#8217;t believe how hard it was to find anything remotely similar.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime this week I&#8217;ll get my sanding paper out and lightly rub down the table with some fine sand paper, clean it off with a tack cloth and then oil it.  It&#8217;s almost like magic how beautiful the table looks after I give it this treatment that perhaps only takes an hour of my time.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds--><p>Have you ever refinished furniture that you own?  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