re: I'm about to run into some teak (I think)

I had a block about 10 years ago. I started carving it like the old crafts men did before they built an actual boat they would do a scale model, usually it was only 1/2 of the hull, doing only one side. I wanted to do the whole hull, and maybe someday dig out the inside and make it a sailing model. It’s as hard as stone, and kind of stinks like allspice.