Just over a week ago I came back from Singapore with loads of pictures and a really bad cold and cough. Now my eyes are sore with some kind of conjunctivitis. Hence the delay in posting some pictures that might be of interest.
First up is a place near Pattaya Thailand. Called the Sanctuary of truth is is a wholly wooden temple started in the 1980's and still under construction. You visit it wearing hard hats though it is more for novelty than real hazards. The guide said the plan was to build it entirely from Teak but they had problems sourcing enough of it so had to use other hardwoods. Teak is fine untreated but the other woods were not and some carvings are already being replaced. Now they paint finished items with preserver and all recent work looks a uniform colour because of it. He also said there is not a single metal fixing - all joinery and pegs.
I've uploaded about 30 pictures to google pictures. I can share the album and post this link to it -
https://goo.gl/photos/hiQhE3DwwcLy7F9MA
You can see the pictures much larger there.
But google don't like hot linked pictures so here are 3 tasters hosted on my webspace..
There are also a couple of pictures of carving in progress in the shared album
Assuming there is some interest I'll post more from somewhere else later.