I had a cutting board made from some nice wood, but which was starting to lose its bright appearance.
A bit of research later, and I get some food-safe mineral oil and wax to restore the surface. Long story short, I was so impressed by how my cutting board came back to life, now I'm looking for any excuse to touch up all the wood in our house. I don't even mind if I clean the cutting board and wash off some of the wax, because then I have an excuse to apply another layer. There's something fun about buffing and polishing a surface.
I'm thinking of getting into woodworking just so I can do this more. I don't even really want to make anything, just apply a bunch of tung oil to a random plank and then wax it to a shine.
42 Comments
Buffalobuffalo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 35 pts · 283d
I find polishing my wood a few too many times in close frequency gives me soreness of the shoulders and elbow. Doing a little jerking off first can help loosen up for the important bits.
Whats your tung oil routine?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 13 pts · 283d
Also using shampoo on my wood makes it burn like a motherfucker.
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 283d
Clean Energy!
prex@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 283d
Solid advice.
This is why I came to lemmy.
Makhno@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 283d
nice
InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 283d
I love doing this to random items.
I loathe doing this to the deck outside.
Beacon@fedia.io · 4 pts · 283d
Why is the deck different?
jimerson@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 283d
The gratification is not as instant.
Beacon@fedia.io · 4 pts · 283d
I've never conditioned any wood before. Why is the deck not as instant gratification?
jimerson@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 283d
It just takes much more work and time to complete the job! Something relatively smaller, like a cutting board, can be done quicker.
InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 283d
I don't know, sanding it takes days for starters.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 283d
I have a friend who was refinishing and sanding his deck.
Between starting and finishing the sanding, his neighbour tore down and installed a whole new deck. He said he had never felt like such a chump.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 283d
Weak initial dopamine hit. It’s a certain fail.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 283d
Have you been introduced to cast iron?
If not, I think you’ll enjoy it.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 283d
Oh yesssss. Get middling quality cast iron, grind it flat, and reseason. A couple of hours of work and you have primo quality cast iron cookware.
Also: you can clean cast iron with soap.
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 283d
What do you use to grind it flat? Mines got some crators I'd like to get rid of and didnt know this was an option.
IMALlama@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 283d
A random orbit palm sander, or really any other sander that's round, will do just fine.
litchralee@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 283d
Obligatory mention: !castiron@lemmy.world
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 283d
Well, that's an instant subscribe. Thx!
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 283d
As someone that's been doing woodworking for the last couple of years: buy a pack of sandpaper of various grits to smooth and watco natural or medium walnut color danish oil to finish. Will cost you like $40 on Amazon or at a hardware store, but will let you see how you like the hobby without having to learn a ton. If you like it, get a saw and a 2x4 and make some simple little household object like a key hook or poop knife. Once you've started making handy little things for yourself, you'll get sucked in and develop a nuanced taste in glues and sandpaper while spending all of your money on the "one more tool I need" and growing to fully occupy all space in the garage. The custom furniture is a nice plus.
jaek@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 283d
Is a poop knife what it sounds like?
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 283d
Do you not have a poop knife at your house?
phtheven@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 283d
What do you use in stead?
jaek@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 283d
Poop hand
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 283d
No, it's a specific type of croquet hammer. Don't worry about it.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 283d
I've got a bunch of wooden utensils I need to do this to. I'm more of a wax/oil paste guy myself though. Guess I know what I'm up to tomorrow afternoon
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 8 pts · 283d
Get you some quality wood handled tools. If it has that shiny slick varnish whatever on the handle, scrape that shit off with a sharp knife and season the fuck out of those handles!
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 283d
Wait till you discover conditioning leather
treadful@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 283d
Agreed. Did my wood knife handles recently. Gotta do my spatulas, maybe some spoons even.
hactar42@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 282d
My wife would love if I did this to her cutting boards. You mind sharing what oils and wax you used?
CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 282d
I got a mixture called "Butcher block conditioner" for food-safe surfaces, and another called "Feed-n-wax" for surfaces that don't touch food.
hactar42@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 281d
Thanks!
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 282d
I made bbq from scratch a couple days ago. I'm talking boiling the tomatoes down with garlic and onions, brown sugar, fermented tamarinds, little liquid smoke. It's silly but I enjoyed myself.
sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 282d
Try the barbecue pork shoulder recipe from serious eats, it's UNBELIEVABLE
Darohan@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 283d
Are you me? This is blow-for-blow exactly what has happened to me over the last year or so. I am hanging on by a thread against the desire to get into woodworking, someone send help.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 283d
I've been woodworking for a few years, I've been tempted to start a Peertube channel about it, and I'd be tempted to do woodworking for beginners kind of content.
I have a background in flight instruction, I work well when I have a student to work with, would you (or @CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) be interested in somehow collaborating on something like that? Record some shop-to-shop video calls or something?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 283d
Join us over at woodworking@lemmy.ca, which seems to be the place for woodworking on the fediverse.
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 280d
!woodworking@lemmy.ca for the lazy and interested
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 283d
What wax did you use?
adhocfungus@midwest.social · 2 pts · 283d
See if there is a woodworker you can team up with. Sanding and finishing is loathed and dreaded by us, at least in my carpentry circle. We want the cutting and glueing and clamping jobs.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 283d
I don't really mind sanding, I tend to put on some headphones and zone out. It can be a lot on big jobs. Planing and scraping can reduce the amount of sanding you need to do.
I often look forward to the process of at least starting the finish because I like watching the grain pop out.
But yes shortly after vacuuming sanding is probably the first major task I'd assign to an apprentice.
Krudler@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 282d
I have a bunch of magnets and I want to put bumpers on them for protection, and make some kind of sliding puck game. Could this technique shine up something and make it slippery like a shuffleboard surface?