[C320-list] Cabin wood , cabin sole.

[Graeme Clark]

Louis
If you pull up the board over the bilge and look at it edge on you can see that the teak veneer is thin and the holly strips even thinner - maybe 1/16 inch or less. It takes very little sanding to get through that!
I had to remake one of the bilge cover boards and it was not an easy task to do it from scratch although you can buy the holly/teak ready made veneered  to plywood in 8ft x 4ft sheets. Not cheap though!
I stripped the remains of old varnish using a heat gun. Trouble is that doesn't remove the varnish in any dents and if folk have been walking on the sole with stones in their shoe soles there will be dents!
So I then used a chemical stripper to get rid of rest if old varnish
As per my previous post a solvent based varnish will give a deeper brown colour to the real than a water based one if that's what you are after
Hope this helps
Graeme
Hull 366, 1996


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> On 14 Oct 2015, at 14:19, Louis Spitz <aronella at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have a vintage 1995 Cat 320, with an unusual cabin sole. It appears to be light wood with dark spacers. (I do know this is a veneer.) I want to strip the sole and stain it darker. What filler should I use?
> Thanks in advance.
> Lou Spitz
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>> On Oct 13, 2015, at 9:15 PM, GREG SUTTON <sutt47 at msn.com> wrote:
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>> Does anyone know the type of wood that was used for the trim on the early 320s?  It appears to be cherry but I want to be sure before starting any repair work this winter.ThanksGreg#128Liberty
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