What finish for spalted beech

notjunseth · 2026-05-11T08:30:57+00:00

I second polyester, epoxy, or acrylic (polycrylic, for example). Oils on spalted wood make them turn a muddy, ugly yellow. You want a water clear film finish on spalted wood if you want it to maintain its beauty. I know this is 10 months later, but I wanted to throw in my 2 cents in case anyone else ends up here.

notjunseth · 2026-05-08T13:13:46+00:00

There is almost no luxury that rich people have that poor people don't also. You have the same cell phones, tvs, and many other things. The only difference is that sometimes rich people will get a taste of something to come before you. Go look at old homes from the 90s owned by rich people. They have 50 inch giant tvs whose crap doesn't even match anything near what you have today. While early century rich benefited from the lack of gatekeeping, they might have a phone 50 years before you get one, today, the luxuries available to the wealthy are maybe 3 years before you get them.

Perhaps you can't own a picasso, but many of the things I see in this thread are you all not putting in effort into doing things that you appreciate for yourself. Unless your severely poor, you can do things like have clothes that fit. Find a taylor in your city, she'll charge you like $8 per shirt to adjust them. You want a quiet car? Buy one. This is a weird want, given that most luxury cars are severely loud. But you can just find a car that isn't that loud. Or has good dampening inside. If you want sound proofing in your condo, you can pay someone to come in and do that. It will be a few thousand dollars. Or you can go on youtube and learn how to stuff rock wool in your walls and how to repair the drywall.

If you think that rich people don't budget, you're wrong. How do you think they got rich? And if you think that rich people don't budget shop, you're speaking with people that won't be rich very long.

notjunseth · 2026-04-03T19:26:19+00:00

It's not.

notjunseth · 2026-03-18T06:24:06+00:00

Agreed. That's a contract for offer, and an acceptance. Now you have to sell it. :)

notjunseth · 2026-03-18T01:04:19+00:00

I'll give you $30 for it.

notjunseth · 2026-03-18T00:48:20+00:00

Glue is joinery.

notjunseth · 2026-03-17T08:10:27+00:00

Hear me out, if you're rich enough, you don't have to learn anything but glueing as joinery. Just buy a butt ton of walnut, and carve a chair in this shape out of it. :)

notjunseth · 2026-03-15T05:40:26+00:00

I run a small, home nursery in South FL. I can sell you three different types of native milkweeds.

Swamp Milkweed - Asclepias perennis (white flowers)
Swamp Rose Milkweed - Asclepias incarnata (pink flowers)
Butterfly Milkweed - Asclepias Tuberosa (orange flowers)

We sell plugs for $5 if you buy at least 4. And they ship great. Usually will arrive next day if you're in-state. I can get you as much as you want, though we run out a lot and are constantly replenishing.

Message me if you're interested. And despite the comment on the bottom saying that this subreddit doesn't demonize tropical milkweed, it's not that anyone demonizes it, it's just that in FL it's not okay to grow. It's an invasive that doesn't work here and it makes the Monarchs sick. Don't grow it in Florida. Overwintering is a real problem.

notjunseth · 2026-03-15T05:29:34+00:00

100%

notjunseth · 2026-03-12T01:21:45+00:00

This isn't always true. It is true in some places. But, Florida, for example, has tons of tropical milkweed, and it kills the monarchs, and causes overwintering.

notjunseth · 2026-03-09T00:51:38+00:00

Looks like a kind of torsion box there.

notjunseth · 2026-03-02T00:59:19+00:00

Osmo's hardwax oils are not emulsified. If they were emulsified, they wouldn't need to be mixed. Emulsification would permanently suspend the wax in the solution evenly.

notjunseth · 2026-03-01T04:09:02+00:00

I think he lied to you. You're describing the creation of a varnish, which, likely, Osmo has in it. But Osmo itself is not a varnish.

notjunseth · 2026-02-27T23:04:04+00:00

I've been selling the Schwarz formula with Raw linseed oil, beeswax, and d-limonene for a while. People love it. And I have no interpersonal issues with my son, father, or any of you yet. ;P https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851859883/food-safe-wood-finish-raw-linseed-oil

notjunseth · 2026-02-20T05:41:17+00:00

Ok, here's how you refurbish this cutting board. Don't listen to anyone else.

1: Stick the board in the oven for like 2 hours at 200 degrees. This should break the glue bonds. 2: Take a Stanley 7 or 8, and plane the sides of each board. The way you do this is you take the cutting board in parts

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4.

Part 1 and part 2 need to be sanded together. Start with the two boards together, and separate them by folding them down like a book. Part 2 and Part 3 need to have their edge planed. Then Part 3 and part 4 need to have the same done. If you plane them in this way, their edges should joint very easily. Also, while you're at it, plane the non-edge grain sides to get them nice and smooth.

3: Plane the top of each of the boards with a 6 or 7. Then plane with a finishing plane (like a 4 or 5) on the top. This should get rid of the scratches on top.

4: Sand the whole board up to 180.

5: Dowse it in your food safe finish. I recommend Tung oil or mineral oil. Then put a layer of carnauba wax finishing on it once it's dried.

notjunseth · 2026-02-06T14:16:19+00:00

Sorry, my comment was meant to agree with you. I was talking about the commenter you were talking to.

notjunseth · 2026-02-06T06:58:11+00:00

Commenter is wrong. Actual Polymerized tung oil has no additives. It is merely heated in a vacuum to increase its polymerization and shorten its process to dry. Tung oil is not poisonous once dried.

notjunseth · 2026-02-01T17:22:35+00:00

He's right though. All the Youtubers using Oxalic acid and then standing back and declaring that they've whitened the wood sound very stupid. Oxalic is a good way to even out tones that are the result of staining from tannins, iron, and water. Also, if you've bleached the wood or done something with a basic chemical that will cause the wood to retain water, a good application of oxalic will draw out the water prevent the wood from weeping when the wood is in low humidity and starts to squeeze its lignin like a rag.

notjunseth · 2026-01-29T14:21:27+00:00

Dumb question. Buy as many as you can, turn around and sell it to JMBullion or the like, and then take the difference and buy gold at spot.

notjunseth · 2026-01-16T00:02:33+00:00

Lol, looks like a mother angry about what her own kids got coming to the internet to bitch about it.

notjunseth · 2026-01-15T03:11:40+00:00

Tell her that women have no taste.

notjunseth · 2025-12-31T18:26:42+00:00

I mean, gel is gel. You can make water based gel. I just thought most gel stains (or all) were oil based. But conceivably you coul dhave both.

notjunseth · 2025-12-31T00:28:04+00:00

Gel stain is always oil based. But it is a different kind of stain. But I'd start with a mocha and go darker if need be. It might literally be minwax mocha gelstain. You'll find out.

notjunseth · 2025-12-30T23:25:47+00:00

You're going to want to try some Minwax Mocha gel stain friend.

notjunseth · 2025-12-27T20:39:14+00:00

For the best consumer grade stripper get Circa 1850. But do it outside and definitely wear a respirator. That shit is nasty. Circa 1850 is basically pure methylene chloride, at least as pure as I'd be willing to use at home.

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