DennisLinkletter

CNC milled interlocking lip After waiting 3 weeks to get some time on this machine, I thought some might like to see how we will achieve a perfect airtight seal. Here is a shot of the new 19.5 OTB's interlocking lip being milled. The cutter is stationary and the table moves, it is movement computer controlled.

Might be like stuffing a V8 in a Porsche... Thanks HP.. I definately want he high torque models to fit in. Might be like stuffing a V8 in a Porsche... It can be done..

Will somebody please send me the measurements - AC motor Will somebody please send me the measurements of the AC motor. Including switch position. Thanks

It will happen.. It will happen.. Don't ya just hate that!

Yes, they are the same Yes, they are the same. They can be sold individually.. why not?

Different textures and finishes Yes, I do many different textures and finishes.. I just added more photos As they will be completely different not only in wood type and color but having 2 dimensions... it's no different that mixing it up with stone, brick or carpet. I've done houses with different textures in different rooms. I might agree having two flat sanded floors might look odd but this is a completely different beast.

All my floors are textured... This is the most simple/basic texture.. Soft Highlighted This is my Rainwashed Something new.. 8" wide Multi Strip This is Hand Hewn (chopped) LITE This is the full Hand Hewn (chopped) Linear planned door production I'll get more shots up this weekend.

Someone just sent me this as a price comparison.. Yikes! For small pieces finger jointed also. http://www.terramai.com/products/flooring/teak.html# Dimensions: 5/8" thick X 3-1/2" or 5-1/2" net face widths X 6' finger-jointed lengths. Millwork: Tongue & groove, end-matched, back-relieved, under-center-matched, finger-jointed (maximum 4 pieces per 6’ length) and sanded to 180 grit. Character: Prefilled nail and dowel holes, oxide stains, prefilled surface seasoning checks and occasional sound, tight knots. Finish: Comes unfinished, unless otherwise specified. Price: • Standard Width 3 1/2" – $19 per square foot • Wide Plank 5 1/2" – $23 per square foot

Just wanted to shout out a big Komodo welcome to you.. Is the Duk something you shoot and Q after you call it? If so, we will demand photos and recipes! With 2 K's experience under your belt, you must have a trick or two to share.. Dennis

Ready stock.. Ready stock.. 6" wide random lengths from 32-86" mostly around 50-60" Couple of options.. Please check your Email

I'll call you in the morning.. your tonight I'll call you in the morning.. your tonight.

The problem plagued, worlds longest project pretty much finished. Yes, the project had problems that made me throw it against a wall a few times. But everything works smoothly now.. The small boxs (front and back) against the cooker will hold small teflon pads to keep the tiles from being scratched. The wood table is held in place by the swinging tabs. Yes, the rotisserie motor can be used.. of course. The version shipped will have acorn nuts with sleeves to secure the tables.

Re: Yes I have about 10,000 sq' in over run material in stock that depending on the texture and finish I will sell to forum members starting at about $5.00 sqft Ex- Carson CA. My new production flooring runs $6.50-$9.50 sq' This floor was sold retail in 2001 for $12-18 sq' (and it was not as nice) Claim to fame: I did the flooring for John Malkovich's house near Provence, France This flooring is pre-finished ready to glue down to any sub-floor even below grade. Easy, inexpensive installation because unlike solid floors this floor does not twist and buckle.. needing expensive nail down installations. Please write me directly and I'll do you right.

Yes.. Big difference between PU and Tung Oil Yes,.. That's the big difference between a polyurethane and Tung Oil finish. A PU finish is basically a plastic layer that when damaged/ looks tired in high traffic locations such as doorways needs the entire room sanded out and recoated. A dirty, smelly mess. The beauty of an "in" the wodd tung oil finish is that you can scotch brite the tired area, just refinish that area and it matches beautifully.

Don't have many photos of this job for the very exclusive Maia Hotel in the Seychelles but what I do have looks nice.. Here are some shots I took recently in the factory.. These are production shots of the 8" planks for a Hirsch Bedner, New Four Seasons Hotel also in the Seychelles. The floor is Linear planned using a hand plane with a blade ground with a very subtle arch. This floor is almost closed pore but we also do a open highlighted grain. As you can see they are more polished but still distressed looking. There are no flat surfaces on them but the look is very subtle. It's a matte Tung oil finish but shown here with a bit of bee's wax on them for sheen. The problem is that the white fiberglass panels in the roof give all the shots a whitish haze.. but I'm sure you get the idea. Please feel free to ask all kinds of questions, I'm happy to work on creating exactly what you want. This top shot is shot low across the floor that's on a work table to show the irregular surface.. but as you can see in the other shots it's not as noticeable. Tung oil is not very shiney.. this is a waxed finish over the tung oil..

Here are some shots that show the components and some of the process This is the 13mm Flooring base Cut into strips Expansion joints cut - 4mm 3ply base and 9mm solid cross laminated core. Wet teak sawn at 4.5mm, pressed and dried in racks Dried in de-humidification kilns to 6% Laying up base and teak wear layer Hot press for laminating floor to core/base Teak laminated to the base Tongue and grooved on all four sides Flooring is sanded, colored and finished on tables by hand. Grain is highlighted by hand.. after being opened by high pressure water blasters and fine garnet.. Rainwashed on tables for finishing 14' long baseboards Linear planed 8" Boards

These shots are of my Hand Hewn texture and is (hand) made with a traditional adze. This is the loud/dramatic version, today we usually do a more subtle version. But it sure made a statement in this house..

I'll get up photos tomorrow but I've been cleaning out the factory and have over 10,000sq' of overruns. This flooring will be reworked and refinished to the customers request. The following volumes and sizes are available: 1.) 355 sq' of 5 1/2" wide 9/16" Teak 2.) 363 sq' of 6" wide 9/16" Rainwashed Teak 3.) 880 sq' of 6" wide 9/16" Teak 4.) 1,378 sq' of 6" wide 9/16" Teak (all 3 layers teak) 5.) 636 sq' of 4 3/4" wide 9/16" Teak I'll get the rest of the list up tomorrow

Two Dimensional Textured Teak Floors Why should wood floors be flat? After 17 years of building hand made teak furniture, designer Dennis Linkletter turned his attention to crafting floors with the same unique textures that were his trademark. Hand Hewn floors was created for discriminating designers, owners and builders who are looking for old world craftsmanship, produced with modern technology, for consistency and durability. With wood floors being traditionally flat, our hand worked floors textures add a new dimension to wood flooring. They are not only beautiful but also almost maintenance free floor. The inevitable nicks and scratches which ruin other floors actually add beauty and compliment our floors time- worn look. European engineered flooring technology enables us to manufacture stable wide plank floors. Hand Hewn Floors is the result of merging centuries old craftsmanship with state of the art stable wide plank engineering. • Environmentally Sound — Indonesian teak was introduced by Chinese traders over 400 years ago and is not indigenous to Indonesia. Therefore this crop is sustainable and environmentally sound. Our planks are carefully selected to be character grade which include burls, knots and streaks to emphasize teak’s natural beauty. • Engineered not Solid — Stability in our plank wood flooring is achieved by laminating kiln dried teak top wear layer to a stable, cross laminated solid core of farm grown Albasia which is laminated to an Albasia plywood base. The timbers are tongue and grooved and end matched before our artisans using traditional tools and centuries old methods hand-hewn or hand-plane every square inch of the floors surface. The flooring is then sanded, stained, polished, and finished, all by hand using old world methods. The flooring industry considers engineered hardwood flooring to be the most dimensionally stable. Because the other layers in an engineered hardwood floor are cross laminated, the floor does not expand and contract or twist and warp with changes in humidity and temperature as solid hardwood floors do. Our flooring is very versatile and can directly glued-down to any sub floor above or below grade and directly on a concrete sub floor, eliminating the need for messy sanding and toxic fumes during very costly traditional installations. Engineered teak flooring is also an excellent choice for geographical areas with higher humidity or moisture levels. Hand Hewn’s wide-plank sculpted teak floors are distinctive and unique in the flooring industry. Six surface treatments are available. • Hand Hewn —The sculpted floors are hand hewn with a traditional village adze. Different traditional adzes and methods are used to produce the balanced appearance. This produces the hand hewn look of floorboards from a long lost time before machines and milled timbers entered our lives. • Hand Hewn LITE – A subtle version of the above floor • Linear Planed S.H.L. — A modified Hand planes give a long drawn, planed look. This floor is then given a soft highlighted finish. We developed this floor for Hirsch Bedner for the new Four Seasons Petit Anise hotel in the Seychelles. • RainWashed — A very natural looks is created by removing the soft growth rings leaving the harder growth rings dramatically raised and accented. This unique texturing technique enhances the natural texture, grain pattern and character of teak resulting in a finish reminiscent of time and rain worn timbers. • Soft highlighted — A flat floor where the grain’s open pores have been accented and the grain shown. Subtle yet dramatic. • Soft highlighted LITE — A flat floor with open, highlighted pores. Sawn Timber Wear Layer: Our 5/8" thick floor has a solid 5/32” sawn teak top-wear layer is laminated to a stabile 3/8”cross laminated solid core with a 11/64” plywood base. . Width: Standard widths are 6" and 8”. Lengths: Floors come in random lengths from 30-86” mostly longs. Sides: All four sides are tongue and grooved. Tung Oil Finish: Between 5 and 7 hand-rubbed coats of non-toxic natural tung oil enhance teaks beautiful grain and color. The feeling to a bare foot and the aesthetic appearance of an oiled wood floor is unrivalled. You are touching a very hard and durable wood and not a layer of plastic. Natural oils allow the wood to develop a patina—the beautiful tones only natural aging produces. Oil penetrates into the wood fibers and cells and produces a finish unmatched by surface seals and finishes. As the oil hardens, a strong protective barrier develops that will not flake or peel off. Oiled floors are also environmentally sound and can be touched up.

Ain't that the truth.. That's my problem too.. I keep seeing that perfect looking piece of bark.. and oops it's in my mouth. And then oooh look at that piece of fat and oops it's in my mouth also.. By the time I finish pulling and chopping I'm stuffed.. Life's a beeatch!

Time to admonish DJ.. Yes, them pictures of your meat cooked over your new fangled, multi holed heat defuser/fat smoker looked great in the KK... BUT where are the chopped/pulled pictures which ensure we are all salivating over the post? Never forget the power of saliva!

I went to Lotus, a gourmet hotel and restaurant supply warehouse in Bali on Tuesday and I found these medium sized ribs and was initially puzzled as to what they were.. I was very pleased when I heard they were veal. (something new) I'm guessing this would be called prime rib. They were sub-zero, very rock hard frozen, so I just wrapped them in a shirt and shorts in a plastic bag and hand carried them back on the plane to Surabaya. Put them in a cooler to defrost and then marinated them overnight in Newman's balsamic vinaigrette (DJ's idea;-) and misc rubs and a hand-full of chilies of course. Here it is just out of the marinade. Going on with dueling probes @ 215º with mostly apple with one lil hickory chunk. Smoked slowly up to 118º pulled it out and opened up both ends letting it climb over 500º tossed it back in on the lower for about 90 seconds per side. Put the drip pan back in and dropped the ribs down into the pan and shut down the cooker.. Pulled it at 125º and wrapped it for 2 hours Very moist.. in fact juice was running out onto the table in these shots.. It was not bloody tasting and although she usually shies away from very rare meat, I persuaded my wife to taste it and she loved it. This is really melt in your mouth meat. Two votes for veal.. These are going to our best friends just to show off what I can do on my Komodos! Damn, I did it again..

Re: Burnin' burnin' hunk-o-cow With a chunk of meat that large you need to plan ahead and really fill your bowl with large, then medium, then small, then smallest... that will give you 25-30 hours. I'd use an instant read thermometer and take a couple of readings as you might have different temps in different areas of that beast but I'd pull as you come up on 190º You can also almost chock off the burn at 186-188º this will prevent you overshooting your target temp. Please next time you cook a 23lb monster PLEASE take photos! I'd love to see how big it is in your KOmodo.

Today was the first day the forum was up and running two years ago. I just pulled up and read "Thanks everybody for 5,000 posts!" which was Sept 06. and remembered how pleased I was at the time.. We now almost 19,200 posts, 268 users. Our all time most users ever online at one time was 193. Our most unique IPs in one day was 625. We are averaging about 300 unique IPs a day in both January and February which is almost twice where we were last year dead middle of winter. I definitely feel like a proud parent! The forum has become Komodo's primary sales tool. Potential buyers spend time on the forum and now write ready to purchase.. It's really become a great resource for ceramic cooking. I'm soo pleased that we now have chiefs that cook on all types of cookers and it is what I always hoped it would be, a truly open ceramic forum. When I lost my father this last December, I also learned that I had a new group of friends, who were truly supportive and whose thoughtful notes helped me through a most difficult time. I'm looking forward to what will surely be Komodo's most successful season. I've hired some new staff and am actually trying to step away from the woodworking factory a bit to be able to spend most of my time on Komodo. I will also soon be introducing on the Forum, Komodo hand hewn floors and doors as well as a line of stainless outdoor furniture and cabinets for Komodos. Just last week, I shipped flooring for the first time to a Komodo customer and will be offering great factory direct prices to forum members. I've been dreaming about Komodos again and will have tweaks and be bringing out new accessories and models this year. Thank you all soo much for your contribution to this forum and more, the cliché it would not be what it is today without you applies..

Chomping at the bit I do remember you having a pretty severe case of the week before Christmas blues yourself.. I'd say the phrase, Chomping at the bit was relevant!