Iron Fastener Sickness

[Dan Hobson]

This boat is seventy years old. It's built by old traditional Swedish methods with two steam bent copper fastened frames and then a massive sawn oak frame fastened with iron boat nails. The planks are butted at the sawn frames. The pictures here show the oval black spots around fasteners that have wasted into the surrounding wood. And this is a call for suggestions about how they might be treated.

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