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I had some paduak laying around from another project, and decided to use it for the truck bed. It's a wood that is orange(ish) when sanded and quickly turns brown in the sun. Sometime in the trucks life a bed was welded in with diamond plate, but just the angle iron remained when I got it. I used marine ply wood as the base to get a level surface, the put the bed wood on top. I used the table saw to cut the grooves for the strips. Stainless strips and carriage bolts from DC, with longer carriage bolts from Lowes. Finished the bed with 3 coats of Sikkens Cetol marine gloss. Sub floor to get level Getting Paduak sized Finished with 3 coats of Sikkens retool marine Nice grain.
That wood is gorgeous. What a contrast between the floor with the wood and stainless and the rest of the bed. It must be quite a shock to look inside and see that, unexpectedly.
Old Blu, that looks great. I'd never heard of that type of wood either.
I used the same Cetol on the oak in my floor. I still have a partial can of their maintenance coat product to be used for any scuffs or scratches. Should last a long time.
Tom
p.s - I had to google the type of wood...
"Pterocarpus is a pantropical genus of trees in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae. Most species of Pterocarpus yield valuable timber traded as padauk; other common names are mukwa or narra."
Old Blu, that looks great. I'd never heard of that type of wood either.
I used the same Cetol on the oak in my floor. I still have a partial can of their maintenance coat product to be used for any scuffs or scratches. Should last a long time.
Tom
p.s - I had to google the type of wood...
"Pterocarpus is a pantropical genus of trees in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae. Most species of Pterocarpus yield valuable timber traded as padauk; other common names are mukwa or narra."
Duh! Of course! I just didn't know that species by the traded name.
I used the Paduak to build some garage doors because it is very rot and insect resistant, much like teak at a fraction of the cost. A side benefit was insulation, the wood is very dense and heavy, so the garage required little heating or cooling. It has an oily nature so wiping with acetone before applying any protective coat is best. Easy to work with, fairly inexpensive (compared to teak), and the reddish brown color that settles in is nice. Luckily I had enough left over for the truck bed. Garage doors made of Paduak
That is nice looking wood but did you treat both sides? And both sides of the marine plywood? The bottom of your marine plywood will delaminate as you will get water between the bed layers.
