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Fresh cut pine , after carving how do you handle as far as treating…….. Let it dry for months first ?

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Fresh cut pine , after carving how do you handle as far as treating…….. Let it dry for months first ?

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Barre: Wood is something like 85% moister when it is fresh cut. It is very important to allow water to evaporate from the surface of wood and replace that water initially with a permeable finish. There are some water based finishes I have tried but I don’t like them as much as oil based for this purpose. Spar, straight poly and other plastics are like putting that sponge in a plastics bag the wood cannot breath. What ever you choose to use give the wood time to develop small checks in the end grain that lets you know the wood is dry a bit and will take a finish. Penetrating oil finishes with a little poly in them, replace the water evaporating out of the wood with out making a plastic coating. In time if you like the poly coated look you can add straight poly.

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