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While we custom build bespoke pubs and bars for Pubs, restaurants, Hotels and Lodges, one of our most popular products is our ‘Quarter Section Pub’ that can be combined with further quarter sections or straight sections to give you almost any design combination from a completely round bar to a long straight bar in sections that are easy to bolt together and move around. Built from wonderfully tough African Teak, also known as Rhodesian Teak, this is a uniquely valuable piece of furniture because of the superb quality and rarity of the timber used in its construction. This lovely piece is finished off with a solid brass foot rail.
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Quarter section |
4 feet 5 inches |
1325 mm |
3 feet 8 inches |
1100 mm |
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1100 Straight
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3 feet 8 inche
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1100 mm
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3 feet 8 inches
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1100 mm
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1300 Straight
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4 feet 4 inches
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1300 mm
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3 feet 8 inches
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1100 mm
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The Savanna Wood Pubs are available in Reclaimed & Harvested Zambezi Teak. Click on Images to Enlarge: |
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Reclaimed African Hardwood Savanna Wood Pub
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Harvested Zambezi Teak Savanna Wood Pub
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This is the famous Savanna Wood Quarter section pub as a stand alone pub, one of our most popular products. An original Savanna Wood design that imitators have tried, unsuccessfully, to copy (it is a complicated design to make, requiring skill and experience), many thousands of happy evenings have been spent around our pubs. Everything from the solid brass foot rail to the magnificent curved top of ancient reclaimed hardwood is pure quality and class.The wildness and beauty of the African bush growing on the deep and ancient sands of the Kalahari veldt belies the savagely harsh conditions under which diverse species of flora manage to prosper and grow. To survive these adverse conditions requires a resilience and toughness unknown in other species. One of the hardest and most durable of these African hardwood trees, Baikiaea plurijuga, a.k.a. Zambezi Teak, is amongst the most beautiful timbers in the world, with a fine, close grain and deep, rich natural colour.
This characteristic of extreme durability and the fact that B. plurijuga is so prevalent on the Kalahari sand veldt, made it the timber of choice for the early settlers at the beginning of the last centaury to build railway lines, housing, workshops, fence lines and much else. Occasionally a building with beams and trusses made of B. plurijuga will be demolished, or a hundred year old section of rail line will be lifted and the sleepers (known as ties in America) will be replaced with concrete. We send out teams to scour Central Africa for the last remaining sources of these antique timbers which we buy up (they are becoming increasingly scarce and difficult to find) and return to our workshop to be handcrafted into our Reclaimed Zambezi Teak collection of what must be some of the most intrinsically valuable furniture being crafted in the modern age. It has been seasoned by the elements over the decades to the consistency of steel, making it extremely difficult to work with, but virtually indestructible. It is truly an investment of a lifetime that will last countless lifetimes.
While we custom build bespoke pubs and bars for Pubs, restaurants, Hotels and Lodges, one of our most popular products is our ‘Quarter Section Pub’ that can be combined with further quarter sections or straight sections to give you almost any design combination from a completely round bar to a long straight bar in sections that are easy to bolt together and move around. Built from wonderfully tough African Teak, also known as Rhodesian Teak, this is a uniquely valuable piece of furniture because of the superb quality and rarity of the timber used in its construction. This lovely piece is finished off with a solid brass foot rail.
We do not believe there is any timber in the world with finer qualities for manufacturing exceptional furniture. Zambezi Teak is extremely hard with a fine, close grain and deep, rich natural colour. It is harvested from the vast forests of Matabeleland situated on the fringe of the Kalahari Desert. The wildness and beauty of the African bush growing on the deep and ancient sands of the Kalahari veldt belies the savagely harsh conditions under which diverse species of flora manage to prosper and grow. To survive these adverse conditions requires a resilience and toughness unknown in other species. One of the hardest and most durable of these African hardwood trees, Baikiaea plurijuga, a.k.a. Zambezi Teak, is amongst the most beautiful timbers in the world, with a fine, close grain and deep, rich natural colour. Harvesting is conducted under the strict supervision of the Forestry Commission, an internationally respected body who are charged with the preservation and commercial utilization of all indigenous forests. Savanna Wood pay royalties on all timber cut into a trust fund for the benefit of the communities living in and around the forests. Utilization of the payments is decided by the trustees, comprising a representative of the community, Forestry Commission and Savanna Wood. Funds may be for schools, clinics, boreholes or other projects that benefit the community as a whole. Because they benefit financially from this arrangement, it is in the communities’ interests to preserve the forests. Savanna also sponsor other projects to help local communities reduce dependency on illegal tree cutting.
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While we custom build bespoke pubs and bars for Pubs, restaurants, Hotels and Lodges, one of our most popular products is our ‘Quarter Section Pub’ that can be combined with further quarter sections or straight sections to give you almost any design combination from a completely round bar to a long straight bar in sections that are easy to bolt together and move around.
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Effective width |
Counter height |
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Imperial |
Metric |
Imperial |
Metric |
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Quarter section |
4 feet 5 inches |
1325 mm |
3 feet 8 inches |
1100 mm |
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1100 Straight
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3 feet 8 inche
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1100 mm
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3 feet 8 inches
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1100 mm
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1300 Straight
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4 feet 4 inches
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1300 mm
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3 feet 8 inches
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1100 mm
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The Combined Pub is available in Reclaimed & Harvested Zambezi Teak. Click on Images to Enlarge: |
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Reclaimed African Hardwood Savanna Wood Pub
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Harvested Zambezi Teak Savanna Wood Pub
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Every now and then the line of rail splits to two or more lines (such as entering or leaving a station or siding). The point where the line splits is called a ‘turnout’ and at this point extra long timbers are required to span the dividing line of rail until it separates into two distinct lines. These extra long timbers (up to 4 meters or 13 feet), few in number initially, are now very rare and difficult to find, with no more than a couple of hundred still in existence. We at Savanna Wood have been collecting these timbers for the past 15 years and once used up there will be no more available. Together with the very best quality standard sleepers we utilise these to manufacture our Premium Range. Masterpieces built with these wonderful full length slabs of timber are a stunning investment that will simply never be replicated. Once these timbers are transported back to our factory (often over thousands of kilometres), I, Richard Lowe, select out the best of these special pieces to suit the client’s particular needs. Often we do not get sufficient suitable timber in a shipment to manufacture a table, so I place them aside and wait until we are lucky enough to find just the right piece before proceeding. Hence, we are often unable to give a delivery date until we have found just the right timbers. However, clients who want such a masterpiece have to be prepared to wait as long as it takes to get it just right, as I will not allow construction to continue until I am satisfied that we have just the right timbers for the client’s requirements.
While we custom build bespoke pubs and bars for Pubs, restaurants, Hotels and Lodges, one of our most popular products is our ‘Quarter Section Pub’ that can be combined with further quarter sections or straight sections to give you almost any design combination from a completely round bar to a long straight bar in sections that are easy to bolt together and move around. Built from wonderfully tough African Teak, also known as Rhodesian Teak, this is a uniquely valuable piece of furniture because of the superb quality and rarity of the timber used in its construction. This lovely piece is finished off with a solid brass foot rail.
We do not believe there is any timber in the world with finer qualities for manufacturing exceptional furniture. Zambezi Teak is extremely hard with a fine, close grain and deep, rich natural colour. It is harvested from the vast forests of Matabeleland situated on the fringe of the Kalahari Desert. The wildness and beauty of the African bush growing on the deep and ancient sands of the Kalahari veldt belies the savagely harsh conditions under which diverse species of flora manage to prosper and grow. To survive these adverse conditions requires a resilience and toughness unknown in other species. One of the hardest and most durable of these African hardwood trees, Baikiaea plurijuga, a.k.a. Zambezi Teak, is amongst the most beautiful timbers in the world, with a fine, close grain and deep, rich natural colour. Harvesting is conducted under the strict supervision of the Forestry Commission, an internationally respected body who are charged with the preservation and commercial utilization of all indigenous forests. Savanna Wood pay royalties on all timber cut into a trust fund for the benefit of the communities living in and around the forests. Utilization of the payments is decided by the trustees, comprising a representative of the community, Forestry Commission and Savanna Wood. Funds may be for schools, clinics, boreholes or other projects that benefit the community as a whole. Because they benefit financially from this arrangement, it is in the communities’ interests to preserve the forests. Savanna also sponsor other projects to help local communities reduce dependency on illegal tree cutting.
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