Larry Edgerton
06-13-2011, 8:25 AM
I have a job to do making some Glass railings, some on the third floor. It will be 1/2" tempered safety glass with no top and bottom rail, and so the posts need to be strong. I have done this before and used Teak, but I have a boatload of Makore, and although I hate the stuff, this job would not require a lot of machining, so it may be a good place to burn some of it up.
My question is...... How does this stuff hold up outside? It is so expensive that it may not get used much this way, but if you have any experiance with this I would love to hear from you. The conditions it will have to survive in are a bit extreme, it is on a bluff overlooking the Straits of Mackinaw and so will see some of the worst weather you can throw at anything short of Antartica. Extreme winds, fog, rain, snow, temps from 100 to -50 and all other lousy kind of weather you can imagine. Comments..........
Thanks, Larry
My question is...... How does this stuff hold up outside? It is so expensive that it may not get used much this way, but if you have any experiance with this I would love to hear from you. The conditions it will have to survive in are a bit extreme, it is on a bluff overlooking the Straits of Mackinaw and so will see some of the worst weather you can throw at anything short of Antartica. Extreme winds, fog, rain, snow, temps from 100 to -50 and all other lousy kind of weather you can imagine. Comments..........
Thanks, Larry