Any woodworkers?

Sweet!

 

Thats quite a setup! Looks like it works

 

Thanks. It was all stuff I had laying around. I didn’t want to move the 100lb log any more than I had to...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6be8GOPPauI

 

love that movie, best part is the basic training...the rest is slow

 

In the man bunker...



I’m thinking I may just rub the top with oil, or maybe spar varnish.

 

Clear poly would be good

 

I like this stuff. It goes on slick, dries fast, sands well, water clean up and...

it’s nearly bulletproof.

 

You definitely should put something on it or it will check and the bark will fall off. JMO

 

Thanks, I hear ya...

I did a smaller hunk once, covered it with epoxy... shiny, hard, slippery. It was like a giant plastic lego block. Stayed together, but I didn’t like it. I’m still debating a finish. I don’t think there’s anything that’ll keep it together forever. It’s just too big and when it cracks there’ll be too much force. It’s gonna warm up in the house for a few weeks before I do anything.

 

The more it dries, the more it will crack. Stabilizing it would stop it but it would be kind of shiny. It'll be hard to handle a piece that big while trying to stabilize it. You could get the router inlay kit and use bowties to hold it together. I'm sure someone on here has a better idea. I personally have never been able to stop big chunks from splitting.

 

Id let it check and fill cracks with epoxy

 

I was gonna say bowties, you can do cool stuff with using different colors too. A big round like that is gonna check reallyyyy bad

 

meh, it’s a big dumb log of a coffee table. when it cracks it’ll be more character, when it breaks in half I’ll have end tables...

 

Now that sounds like the best plan yet, and it will be free.

 

here’s the oak flooring going down and finished. It was made from white oak we had milled when we cleared some trees in our backyard. It’ll be about 900sf all said and done, don’t remember how many board feet my dad started with.

 

Beautiful!

 

It was a new finish we’ve never used before and I’ve never even heard of...
https://osmo-store.com/product/polyx-oil-high-solid/

It’s a wax based renewable finish, pretty cool and it looks good

 

OSMO finishes are big in Europe , just starting to show up in North America , we used some on a house I built a couple years ago

 

I watch this guy on youtube , his latest project is pretty cool

https://youtu.be/uEoUFBt0L80

 

Whoa.