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Teak Double Doors and Teak Exterior Doors
by The-Wood® Studio Thailand
The-Wood® Studio is a designer and manufacturer
of double and single front entryways made in teak. We offer custom doorways, front
wood doors, exterior doors, residential and garage doors made in solid teak
and teangwood. We
build
teak unfinished, pre-finished and finished doors with and without frames.
We make teak frames, slabs, transoms, lintels and sidelights. We
make doors in French, Mexican,
English,
Victorian, Classic and Moroccan styles. We carve crests, coat of
arms, logos, names, horses and flowers. We specialize in custom design
doors in any style, size, thickness, and shape. We build wide range of
wood doors with one of a kind carving design and
with the most unique
ornaments. Shipping to US or Europe $500.00 USD only!
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Custom
Work: we make doors to customer's
design. All you need to provide is a picture or a drawing and we take
care of the rest. Carving: we offer over
4,000 spectacular carving designs. We carve names, initials, company logos,
monograms, flowers, coat of arms, humans, animals and much more...
Teakwood: Latin name "Tectona Grandis
Linn". Teak or Golden Teak is the king of hardwoods and it's one of the
world's most valuable timbers, recognized for its durability and
stability. Teak is more durable than any other hardwood and has
unparalleled rich beauty. Teak can withstand all types of weather.
Ancient Burmese and Thai royalty considered teak to be a royal tree.
It has been the pillar of the shipbuilding industry for centuries.
The decks of the Titanic were covered
in Teak, and the wood is as good today as the day she sank on 1912.
Teak is also used in the Middle East oil industry as one of the very
few
timbers that can withstand the punishing heat of the desert and will
not readily catch fire. Teak can withstand harsh chemicals, and is
resistant to fungi, rot and termites. Unlike other woods, teak does
not turn black when in contact with metals. It looks best when
applied transparent and light colors...
Teak is the
common name for “Tectona grandis”, a large deciduous tree of the
family Verbenaceae, or its wood, one of the most valuable timbers.
Teak has been widely used in India for more than 2,000 years. The
name teak is from the Malayan word tekka. The tree has a straight,
but often buttressed, stem (i.e., thickened at the base), a
spreading crown, and four-sided branch lets with large quadrangular
pith. The leaves are opposite or sometimes whorled in young
specimens, about 0.5 meter (1.5 feet) long and 23 centimeters (9
inches) wide. In shape they resemble those of the tobacco plant, but
their substance is hard and the surface rough. The branches
terminate in many small white flowers in large, erect,
cross-branched panicles. The fruit is a drupe (fleshy, with a stony
seed), two-thirds of an inch in diameter. The bark of the stem is
about 1.3 cm thick, gray or brownish gray, the sapwood white; the
unseasoned heartwood has a pleasant and strong aromatic fragrance
and a beautiful golden-yellow colour, which on seasoning darkens
into brown, mottled with darker streaks. The timber retains its
aromatic fragrance to a great age. Native to India, Burma, and
Thailand, the tree grows as far north as about the 25th parallel in
these areas and to the 32nd parallel in the Punjab. The tree is not
found near the coast; the most valuable forests are on low hills up
to about 3,000 feet. Stands are also found in the Philippines and in
Java and elsewhere in the Malay Archipelago. Teak is also planted in
Africa and Central America. During the dry season the tree is
leafless; in hot localities the leaves fall in January, but in moist
places the tree remains green until March. At the end of the dry
season, when the first monsoon rains fall, the new foliage emerges.
Although the tree flowers freely, few seeds are produced because
many of the flowers are sterile. The forest fires of the dry season
after the seeds have ripened and have partly fallen, impede the
spread of the tree by self-sown seed. Teak trees on good soil have
attained an average height of 18 m in 15 years, with a girth, breast
high, of 0.5 m. In the natural forests teak timber with a girth of
about 2 m (diameter of 0.6 m) is never less than 100 and often more
than 200 years old. Mature trees are usually not more than 150 ft
high. Due to the oil and rubber found naturally in the wood, teak
has a greater ability to withstand the elements than any other wood.
For this reason it has been the preferred choice for boats, and in
fact, it has been used on aircraft carrier decks! This is because of
its ability to resist splintering, warping and rotting. (If left
un-oiled, our furniture will turn a soft dove gray when allowed to
remain outdoors. This process will take approximately one year.)
Teak timber is valued in warm countries principally for its
extraordinary durability. The timber is practically imperishable
under cover. Teakwood is well know since early/ancient times as a
valuable resource due to its long life reliability and weather
resistance as well as its workable qualities. Pieces of teak have
been found (in India) over 200 years old and still intact. Teakwood
is used for shipbuilding, fine furniture, door and window frames,
wharves, bridges, cooling-tower louvers, flooring, paneling, railway
cars, and Venetian blinds. An important property of teak is its
extremely good dimensional stability. It is strong, of medium
weight, and of average hardness. Termites eat the sapwood but rarely
attack the heartwood; it is not, however, completely resistant to
marine borers. Teak also refers specifically to the wood and its
characteristic color, which ranges from olive to yellowish gray or
moderate brown. Teak furniture dates back prior to the 19th century
used mainly by the Chinese for export to Europe. The Victorian era
also incorporated the use of teakwood during the mechanical era of
the 1840’s with the invention of presses, veneer cutters etc which
enabled them to create decorative elegant high class furniture.
Another factor here is transportation (shipping) was also becoming
more advanced. Burma produces most of the world's supply, India,
Thailand, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka (Ceylon) ranking next in
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