Old mahogny

While browsing Blocket I’ve found the ad about old, closed down boat-yard which sells their wood. It is in Nyköping so moderately close to us - 180km.

I packed the family and we went on the trip. I was hoping to buy some long mahogny planks, to mill thin, conical lists from it - to glue whale-deck on Meritaten. Places like this usually have good and valuable stock of old, air-dried wood so I prepared the budget to buy as much of it as I can put into my car.

I ended up spending all my money (and wishing I had more) and loading the car roof with 5m long beautiful mahogny planks. Inside the car I could fit shorter bits of solid mahogny lists and profiles and one thick oak off-cut which I plan to use for fabricating floor timber.

The weather forecast was, unfortunately, true - there was very heavy wind reaching 20m/s in gusts. That did not make driving easier - with wobbly “wing” all the way across the roof.

On the way home we stopped in Södertälje, to visit “Tom-Titts experiment”. I was a bit pessimistic about going into dense traffic with all this wood on the roof - not to mention leaving the car on public parking for a few hours.

I guess we were lucky - the car and wood were waiting for us after 3h visit to the museum. I tightened the knots, checked strappings and we continued (slowly) driving home.

A small surprise was waiting for me when I tried to fit this wood into my storage - it was not enough space! It would be a sin to cut these planks because of that so I moved them into the living room.

So now we live with 5m long mahogny planks on the floor!