Anyone have WALNUT butcher block?
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anyone with experience in refinishing Boos butcher block?
Comments (2)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....See MoreAnyone have a butcher block counter they cut on?
Comments (19)Growing up, my mom had a built in cutting board. I don't remember squares, so it must have been long runs of wood. I sure am glad I grew up before the media invented germs. We cut everything on it and just cleaned it with Windex. That's all. I don't recall her ever oiling it, never salting it, never, God knows, sanding it. Just Windex. Then the towel was hung over the base cabinet door for the next use. We baked on it, made sandwiches for lunch on it, cut cold-cuts on it, chicken, stew meat, dough, I do mean everything. Probably my own fingers at times, since I cut myself a lot. I do recall opening a can and slicing both thumb and index finger trying to get the lid off. On that counter... I just made my own 24" and 14' wood counter tops (10-12' pieces of maple). Can't call them butcher blocks because I don't want to rile the purists. I haven't done anything about sealing them yet, because I want to color them. My trouble is maple splotches and I want to do it right. Anyway, by the stove, I'll probably cut on it. Where it goes into the dining area? Probably not....See More3 inch custom butchers block anyone?
Comments (4)We had one made by Ozark about 17 years ago. It's about 24x36 and 4 inches thick. It is their birdseye "rock" maple. Wonderful. We kept it through a move, and in our remodel, we designed it into a counter. To make it new again, I wrote them for advice on refinishing. After a number of rounds of sanding and Behlin's salad oil finish, it looked completely new again. No idea of the price now, but it's a real keeper if we ever move again!...See MorePrepping John Boos walnut butcher block for install + undermount sink
Comments (9)$200 for walnut counters for the whole kitchen??!!! Wow. I would have jumped on it, too. We just did maple counters at our lake house and I felt we got a good deal at about $700. We did an overmount sink, but still looked into finishes pretty carefully. I found that Waterlox and Good Stuff for Wood were the most/best recommended products here. Neither of these are available in my city. We ended up using Watco's Butcher Block finish. Our sink was just installed a few months ago, so I can't say how it is working, but the finish is very hard and water beads on it - even when left for awhile. We have had wormy maple on our island counter in our main residence for 5 years, but there is no sink. We tried a variety of finishes on it including a mix of oil and wax from Boos. This had to be re-applied often (we did it monthly, but it could have easily been done weekly). It kept it from drying out, but was not protection from water or staining. We also tried Osmos. This gave it a little bit of protection, but not much and also needed to be re-applied about every 6 months to a year. We currently have Watco on it and it has held up well. We did 5 coats initially and after a couple years, I feel it needs another coat (but this is easily done). If you prefer a poly finish, we used Old Master's wipe on poly on our old oak farmhouse kitchen table. It got lots of use as it was in the middle of our kitchen and this held up really well. I debated using this on our new maple counters, but felt that I wanted something that sunk in more rather than sitting on top like a poly. I am not an expert, but the above has been my experience. Hope it helps. Would love to see pics when it's done....See Moreplumorchard
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