I use food grade epoxy both inside and out. On the outside, I heat the wood as much as I dare, apply the epoxy for a while with more heat and then wipe off. The inside gets a thicker, glossy coat.
I would go 5/4 or 8/4, as long and as wide as you can make it. Gives whomever is buying it the most flexibility with the material. Rough cut black walnut brings $7-8 a board foot around here.
Wanna trade?
Nope. Mine is 12 ft long and weighs a ton. Not sure how I can get it out when the time comes.
I dont think so. I went and picked up another quart and it went on pretty nice . The first can had the consistency of warm molasses, the second can was much thinner and spread much easier. First can was probably old stock that had been on the shelf for too long.
Too thick of application.
It's for a temporary "non food" work surface. And, I learned the hard way that foam is less than ideal for application.
It sure came out nice.
Osage is great bow-wood, but it's a pain in the ass to work with. You'd have a blast working with some straight grained ash, hickory, oak, etc. And, that stuff is probably all around you.
Yeah, I mostly get bow wood from my brother's property and there's hickory all over the place. That's next on the list, but I do still want osage because eventually I'd like to try some pretty aggressive designs that would hold up better with osage I think. Plus I'm already not a fan of how much moisture the white woods suck up. I'll keep working with a variety of wood species though, I already have a bunch of white mulberry drying and I'm excited to see how that will work out too.
Osage is awesome stuff, no doubt. Just tough to find a clean stave, so it can be demanding of your skills, working around all the knots and bends. I've never worked with mulberry or hackberry. I've made a bunch out of ash and hickory, one maple, one osage. Fun stuff!
