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274858 | John Leyden <leydenjl@g...> | 2021‑12‑04 | Wooden Soap Dish? |
GG’s, Darling Daughter has requested that a wooden soap dish be found in her stocking this holiday season. My gut reaction is…yuck! Regardless of wood species used, I can’t imagine something more easily inclined to slime and rot. Please correct me if I am wrong. I’ll do anything for this young lady as doubtless you would for one of your own. But wood in the tub? Really? Where do these millennials get such ideas? |
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274859 | John M. Johnston <jmjhnstn@m...> | 2021‑12‑04 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
Cypress. John M. Johnston “P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.” - Sir Boyle Roche, M.P. |
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274860 | William Fariss | 2021‑12‑04 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
Go to eBay and type in "wooden soap dish". That will get you all the ideas you possibly need to make one. Sent from BlueMail |
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274861 | John Ruth <johnrruth@h...> | 2021‑12‑04 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
John, Teak. True teak, tectona grandis, not the faux teak currently used in imported "teak" items, is very rot-resistant. There's a saying to the effect that "No one has ever seen a piece of rotten teak." This is not far from the truth. The wood is full of silica, and hence rapidly dulls tools. John Ruth Metuchen, NJ |
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274863 | Kirk Eppler | 2021‑12‑04 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
Actually, go to Etsy too, that may be where she found it. I would second the teak vote, talk to you local boat store. If you ridge the bottom, it will reduce the grossness factor a bit Kirk in Half Moon Bay, near lots of things that spend most of their life in the water. On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 6:06 PM William Fariss via groups.io |
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274864 | scritch <capeflattery@c...> | 2021‑12‑04 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
Wife and I used to volunteer on an old tugboat in Seattle (Arthur Foss, 1889). We had a wooden soap dish in the head. We agree, Yuck. |
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274865 | Bill Ghio | 2021‑12‑04 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
> On Dec 3, 2021, at 10:45 PM, Kirk Eppler via groups.io |
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274866 | scottg <scottg@s...> | 2021‑12‑04 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
Bill sez I can recommend Ipe. I turned a decorative plug out of Ipe that has survived 5 or 6 years of daily wet/dry cycles with no evidence of deterioration. Bill I was going to recommend ipe too. Its easier to get than cypress or teak. I would go for the design of small bars (shaped or plain) joined to 2 little end feet for maximum drainage. I can't imagine relying on glue alone for this. I think I'd probably go with little brass nails or screws in addition It'll still get mungy but not quite as quickly. yours scott who will be needing to turn a little ipe plug for his sink just like Bill did, soon -- ******************************* Scott Grandstaff Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca 96039 scottg@s... http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/ http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/hpages/index.html |
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274867 | Phil Schempf <philschempf@g...> | 2021‑12‑04 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
We have one at home. It’s cut from a single piece of wood. A wide dado with the grain across the bottom to leave ~1/4” on each side for “legs”. Top is cut with V shaped grooves leaving ~1/4” flats on each side. Grooved portion wide and long enough to accommodate a bar of soap. I don’t know what sort of wood it is, no remarkable grain and light in color, maple like. No discernible finish, but maybe a wax. I can send a photo later when I get home. It does get mungy like any soap dish, but a quick scrub with a brush cleans it up pretty quick. Haven’t had any problems with mold. |
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274868 | Bill Ghio | 2021‑12‑04 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
> On Dec 3, 2021, at 8:38 PM, John Leyden |
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274869 | gary allan may | 2021‑12‑04 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
ebay'll get you plenty of images, all right. Google images will get you a lot more images, but curiously, 'vintage' wooden soap dish search shows no venerables, only 'new' ones. gluck widdat: gam in OlyWA/USA How horrible it is to have so many people killed!---And what a blessing one cares for none of them! Jane Austen On Friday, December 3, 2021, 06:06:52 PM PST, William Fariss via groups.io |
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274870 | Don Schwartz <dks@t...> | 2021‑12‑04 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
I would go with lignum vitae for this application. Good colours, very fine-grained, full of naturally-occurring oil. Not easy to work, but sharp tools produce very fine surfaces. My second choice would be olive. FWIW Don On 2021-12-03 6:38 p.m., John Leyden wrote: > GG’s, > > Darling Daughter has requested that a wooden soap dish be found in her stocking this holiday season. > > My gut reaction is…yuck! > > Regardless of wood species used, I can’t imagine something more easily inclined to slime and rot. > > Please correct me if I am wrong. I’ll do anything for this young lady as doubtless you would for one of your own. But wood in the tub? Really? > > Where do these millennials get such ideas? > > > > > -- Buy less. Buy Canadian. “Everyone knows the river will swell, but they always find money for floods” –– Joan Baez |
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274871 | scritch <capeflattery@c...> | 2021‑12‑04 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
I was told that ipe in the Puget Sound climate will last 50 years with no treatment! I made a deck table for my wife out of some 1x6 ipe and the only change I see in it after 10 years outside is a bit of graying. |
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274872 | Don Schwartz <dks@t...> | 2021‑12‑04 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
I believe Ipe is used extensively for garden furmiture in the UK. Don On 2021-12-04 2:09 p.m., scritch wrote: > I was told that ipe in the Puget Sound climate will last 50 years with no treatment! I made a deck table for my wife out of some 1x6 ipe and the only change I see in it after 10 years outside is a bit of graying. > > > > > -- Buy less. Buy Canadian. “Everyone knows the river will swell, but they always find money for floods” –– Joan Baez |
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274873 | Don Schwartz <dks@t...> | 2021‑12‑04 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
I believe Ipe is used extensively for garden furniture in the UK. Don On 2021-12-04 2:09 p.m., scritch wrote: > I was told that ipe in the Puget Sound climate will last 50 years with no treatment! I made a deck table for my wife out of some 1x6 ipe and the only change I see in it after 10 years outside is a bit of graying. > > > > > -- Buy less. Buy Canadian. “Everyone knows the river will swell, but they always find money for floods” –– Joan Baez |
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274874 | scottg <scottg@s...> | 2021‑12‑05 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
I was told that ipe in the Puget Sound climate will last 50 years > with no treatment! > > Ipe has been used for maintenance and repair of the famous Atlantic > City boardwalk for quite some time. But it was originally constructed > of southern yellow pine. > > So it sounds like SYP might be another contender if its easy and cheap to > get yours scott > > ******************************* Scott Grandstaff Box 409 Happy Camp, > Ca 96039 scottg@s... > http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/ > http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/hpages/index.html > |
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274875 | Thomas Conroy | 2021‑12‑05 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
John Leyden wrote: | | | | Darling Daughter has requested that a wooden soap dish be found in her stocking this holiday season. My gut reaction is…yuck! Regardless of wood species used, I can’t imagine something more easily inclined to slime and rot. Please correct me if I am wrong. I’ll do anything for this young lady as doubtless you would for one of your own. But wood in the tub?... | | | Hi, John, For what its worth: About forty years ago I inherited, from the widow of a greatuncle who died in 1959, an unopened cake of shaving soap packaged in a small turned wooden (maple?) bowl with a lid. This wasn't a fancy gift presentation; it was clearly meant to be a working shaving tool (won't shatter into feet-slicing bits of ceramic, the way a conventional mug will if you drop it on a tile floor on a groggy morning). I never had a use for shaving soap, but eventually I finished the bowl with spar varnish and used it occasionally for flour paste. I never had an issue with slime or rot, beyond what I would have had anyway in a ceramic or plastic paste pot. My binding teacher has used wooden bowls for paste for as long as I can remember, say forty years. The paste is changed and the bowls washed out every week; there is no sign of rot or bacteria, beyond what you have anyway from the paste itself. Traditional English paste pots were shallow coopered wood bowls. Coopered wooden vessels were traditionally used in many houshold functions into the twentieth century. Any soap bowl is going to have a slime problem, but from melted soap, not from bacteria. Between the anti-bacterial properties of wood, the anti-bacterial properties of soap, and occasional cleaning, I don't see that "slime and rot" should be anything to worry about unduly. I would suggest making the soap dish by turning, to reduce potential gaps and cracks where nasty stuff might settle in; but that is more a matter of your own skills, tooling, and tastes. Tom ConroyBerkeley |
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274876 | Phil E. <pedgerton66@g...> | 2021‑12‑05 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
How about a wooden dish surrounding a glass or ceramic liner? Phil E. |
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274877 | galoot@l... | 2021‑12‑05 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
Quoting "Phil E." |
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274878 | Paul Aud | 2021‑12‑05 | Re: Wooden Soap Dish? |
I made wooden soap holders about 13 years ago. I agree that they were hard to maintain, but most of that was my small slots. It needed bigger slots for easier cleaning. I made them from what I think we're oak scraps from mis-manufactured trophy backs. I had some serious grain-driven curving, but they didn't rot. They did stain the counters with tannin where they sat. So that's something to consider. We no longer use them, but I haven't given up on the idea. Mine were completely unfinished. On Sat, Dec 4, 2021, 8:42 PM Thomas Conroy via groups.io |
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