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Curious about working with and finishing wet wood?
Highly recommend @walrusoil Coconut Oil. It wears well, it allows your piece to expel moisture without showing signs, and it’s easy to keep up. Here are a few of our pros / cons from working with the finish so far.
👍 Extremely breathable
👍 No hard membrane
👍 Easy to build and reapply over scuffs and scratches
👎 Dries out over time
👎 Requires ongoing maintenance
👎 Extremely matte
Have questions / comments? Let’s hear em!
Transcript
We screwed up. So since there's not a lot of information on finishing wet wood, especially wood of this size, we've done some experiments over the course of a few years, which have failed. So in the past, we've tried a tung oil and linseed oil combination, Even though we allowed it to cure over the course of the summer, still never fully cured and left sort of a waxy build up residue, which you could actually scrape off of your fingernail. Learning from that mistake, we've sanded off all that finish, and now we're gonna try a new product, which will hopefully allow that moisture to come in and come out without too much of a reaction to the actual finish itself. So we're gonna try coconut oil, oil, which is good for butcher block for eating surfaces. So hopefully, it'll be great for this no that the better that's still in the material is allowed to leach out, but still gives it a good look. We're hoping to share this experience with you. So this is an adventure for all of us, and so hopefully we all learn from this.
