[Question] What oil would you recommend for birch kitchen utensils that's food-safe and preserves the beautiful natural light and white/dry color of the wood? I made a simple large wooden fork for cooking and looking for an oil to to preserve the natural color and also protect from moisture. LMK!
Question regarding Odie's Oil
Finishing a large slab table of curly spalted maple. Previously tried Rubio on curly maple and was not satisfied with the results, mostly bc of the limitations with not being able to sand beyond 180.
Sanded this up to 600. In few of the spalted areas, it's drinking up the oil like crazy.
Question is, should I continue applying coats of Odie's Oil until these softer parts get fully sealed before moving on to Odie's wood butter?
I am building an outdoor tortoise enclosure out of pallets. Do I need to seal in the wood to weatherproof it or will it be fine as is?
I am building a couple of outdoor tortoise enclosures. I do wildlife rehab, rescue and fostering and I do all the rescues turtles and tortoises. I wanted to build a few outdoor enclosures for the tortoises but didn’t want to spend a ton of money on it so I asked my neighbor if I could have her wood pallets since she was getting her whole porch redone in brick so had a bunch of pallets from the brick delivery. I cut the pallets in half and I am screwing them together with a wire mesh base so the tortoises can’t dig out. But I am wondering if the wood that the pallets are made of would need a coating (polyurethane?) to weatherproof them or if it will slowly decay without it in the Florida weather over time? If so, what would be the best coating to use?
Thanks in advance for any help!