Finish recommendations for Wenge & Zebrawood?

[davidtu]

Looking for just a good natural finish to use on a box made from Wenge & Zebrawood. What does anyone recommend?

[drumpriest]

Seal-A-Cell and Arm-R-Seal.

[Ken Massingale]

What Keith said, or Waterlox. Either will give a nice finish.

Uh, David, wasn't that supposed to be completed by yesterday? ;-D

[davidtu]

Hmmmm... you have a good memory!

I had the day wrong... not the DATE, mind you... I don't want to be shot... but I thought 8/3 was Wed, turns out its today, Thurs! That gave me an extra day!

HOW did I SPEND that extra day? I spent it trying to get my jointer knives leveled w/o the leveling gauge that I was apparently supposed to get w/ the machine.... actually it took more than a day of work!

So, yes I am behind... but at least everything is jointed nicely.

She figured out I am making her something, guess I am not so clever, so she has extended my deadline to "whenever"; apparently she prefers it done correctly over quickly. Not my usual tradeoff, but I'll try to work with it.

Regards,
David

[Ken Massingale]

David, I prefer a nice wiped on and rubbed finish, but it takes time.
A quick finish that still looks real good is spray lacquer, in the rattle cans. It goes on easy and dries fast. Look at the nice stuff Popeye has posted. It's beautiful and he almost always uses rattle cans.

[MilDoc]

Have to agree with Keith. Seal-A-cell and Arm-R-Seal. Then buff with a good compund (I use Behlens).