Ready Seal ipe' maintenance

[RPetry 564]

This is a job first done in September 2009. After a sodium hypochlorite/soap cleaning, and 8 months of weathering, very little original stain left. Normal, it's ipe' and fairly new. What is critical is that the ipe' has not greyed out.

Stain is still wet in the pics, color is medium red. This is very similar to Armstrong-Clark's new color, mahogany.

[RPetry 564]

I want this house. Some of the most beautiful, interesting wood I have seen. Not the ipe' decks, which are becoming almost common in this area, but the 100 yr. old barn cedar siding and the old mesquite doors from Mexico.

Plus I like the "head" from India. Very old, who knows what type of wood.

[Adrian 155]

Plus I like the "head" from India. Very old, who knows what type of wood.

Awesone tone to that stain.

I hope you get the house as well Rick.

I know you will be pleased to get the head with the job as well.

I restored a Bob Marley head once... really... on vids too.

It's a good feeling to restore something so unique.

And you will like getting the head, as an add on.

[RPetry 564]

Adrian,

I'll have to get the lowdown on the Hindu/Buddest head sculpture. All I know is that it is old, purchased from an antiquties dealer from NYC, and we had better not mess it up. Just moving it is nerve wracking, the finish is like powder and comes off on your hands and the ipe' deck.

I would not care to do anything with the old growth cedar siding. The wood is absolutely prime, great coloring and in primo condition. The mesquite doors look like something out of a Clint Eastwood western. Doesn't need any help. Every once in a while there is wood where you just say NO.