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.
I’ve never conditioned any wood before. Why is the deck not as instant gratification?
It just takes much more work and time to complete the job! Something relatively smaller, like a cutting board, can be done quicker.
I don’t know, sanding it takes days for starters.
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.