{"id":500,"date":"2018-11-24T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.evanyamoto.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2018-11-24T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T03:16:00","slug":"figured-teak-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/24\/figured-teak-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"Figured Teak Desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, my wife wanted me to make her a desk, so we made a trip up to our usual wood store. She found this figured teak board that she really liked. Most people really like figured wood, but I&#8217;m not normally a huge fan of it. I tend to like quarter sawn, long straight grains but this board was pretty amazing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always nervous to cut nice, expensive wood but luckily I didn&#8217;t have to make many cuts. And the grain lined up relatively well. So I just drilled some holes for some dowels and glued it up.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0932-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-398\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a lot of sanding, I had to choose which teak oil to use &#8211; Starbrite or Watco.  Anyone who&#8217;s ever used Watco can recognize it by the awful cap and the accompanying wrench that&#8217;s need to pry it open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0935-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-399\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tried both on some of the scrap pieces and&#8230; I couldn&#8217;t really tell the difference.  I thought the Starbright was a little less orange and I couldn&#8217;t find my wrench, so I went with that one.  And it sure made the grain come to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0942-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-400\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0952-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-401\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to describe, but it looks almost like the grain is under a layer of glass.  And all of the textures look almost 3D and reflect the light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0953-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-402\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All that was left to do was to attach some hairpin legs my wife bought on Etsy and her custom desk was complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, my wife wanted me to make her a desk, so we made a trip up to our usual wood store. She found this figured teak board that she really liked. Most people really like figured wood, but I&#8217;m not normally a huge fan of it. I tend to like quarter sawn, long straight grains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","tag-made-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}