Comments on: End Grain Finishing Issue

By: Kaleo Kala

Kaleo Kala — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:02:35 +0000

Sorry wrong post, as for the end grain thing, the only way to strat to fix it would be sand the box back down. I have never tried the diluted glue trick. But it could work. We all know that end grain is going to soak up more finish, which is why it gets darker.

I don’t know how many coats of oil you have on there? But it looks like the finish is building up and oxidizing there on the end grain. Sand the box down and resand up to 400 to 600 grit. This might polish the end grain a bit, so that it doesn’t soak up so much oil. That’s the only thing that I can think of. I hope it helps.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:13:13 +0000

Eric, I am by no means an expert on this, but I wanted to give you an idea. I am not really sure if this works, but I have heard of people using a glue/water mixture to “paint” the end grain with when finishing. I think the idea is that the highly diluted glue will limit the amount of finish sucked into the end grain. This would then keep it more of an even color.

I do think this would be risky b/c I know how glue and finish don’t play well together. I would definitely research this technique and test it before applying to the box.

Hopefully the big dogs (Mark and Kaleo) will have a better idea.