This will be inserted with epoxy resin as the adhesive.I'd just like to add that teak is an oily wood, even this decades old piece will contain some oil so a good cleaning with an alcohol based cleaner where the joint is to be made is required.
Making the Breast and Bow Hook
I always keep my timber cutoffs as they often become useful later and of course timber is precious. From some older unused hardwood I took a nice piece of teak. I have had this in storage for about twenty years and before that it at as a window board for a decade in my house. Cuttings from this will make a nice breast and also bow hook. It's important that this be a hardwood as if ever the the pilot is in trouble and needs a tow the fittings for that connection will be embedded in the hook. So I have shaped up both the bow hook and the breast hook to match the shape suggested by the way that the fore and aft planking has settled.
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