Hi,
I just finished up a cutting board with Behlen's Salad Bowl Finish. I applied 3 coats. I probably could leave it alone as it looks great, but I am going to continue as the directions say by rubbing with 0000 steel wool. I've done this in the past with shellac. I essentially take off all of the shellac (or maybe it just get's burnished). I then used to follow up with butchers paste wax and it would give the wood a beautiful "pastic" and natural look....really nice.
I would like to do this for the cutting board, but I obviously can't use butcher's......What wax can I sparingly apply? I've read about paraffin wax, but I am not keen on applying melted wax to the board as I think it will be too much and too hard to get off. Could I just rub it on unmelted and then rub off any excess with a terry cloth? Would love to do this cheaply.....bees wax would have to be bought online and seems to be expensive.
Thanks,
Doug
I just finished up a cutting board with Behlen's Salad Bowl Finish. I applied 3 coats. I probably could leave it alone as it looks great, but I am going to continue as the directions say by rubbing with 0000 steel wool. I've done this in the past with shellac. I essentially take off all of the shellac (or maybe it just get's burnished). I then used to follow up with butchers paste wax and it would give the wood a beautiful "pastic" and natural look....really nice.
I would like to do this for the cutting board, but I obviously can't use butcher's......What wax can I sparingly apply? I've read about paraffin wax, but I am not keen on applying melted wax to the board as I think it will be too much and too hard to get off. Could I just rub it on unmelted and then rub off any excess with a terry cloth? Would love to do this cheaply.....bees wax would have to be bought online and seems to be expensive.
Thanks,
Doug