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Wed, Apr 4, 12 at 10:52
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I've just become the owner of a 24" Boos butcher block with some use. It is in excellent shape but does need a bit of renewing. On the Boos website it just speaks to sanding and oiling. Does anyone have anything to add to this?
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- Posted by sombreuil_mongrel (My Page) on Sun, Apr 8, 12 at 17:56
| Scraping would be more practical, as sandpaper will clog up with the oil. But scraping is an acquired skill, and you need to purchase a cabinet scraper and learn how to sharpen it. Casey |
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| I just did mine with a low angle smoothing plane (there's a fair amount of curly maple in mine, and I wanted to avoid tearout). It was fast (took less than 20 min for the whole process on a 42" square top), no dust, and came out great. If you have many cut marks, dings, and such you want to get out a cabinet scraper will take forever and your thumbs will get sore ;-) ). Refinished with a couple coats of 100% tung oil (not a tung oil varnish, or anything they sell at the hardware store as "tung oil" or "tung oil finish") this time, have used walnut oil in the past. You want a polymerizing oil. |
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