Finishing up a laminated 2 by bench that came out better than I expected in terms of straight and flat. Finishing planing it flat this week, and have a 3 day weekend to get a finish on it. The wood is typical BORG dimensional lumber, I’m using it as an outfeed/assembly/project table. I WANT the top to be a little slippery, as I’m not doing woodworking on this bench, as an outfeed table, I want my workpieces to slide smoothly off the saw or router table onto the outfeed table. Right now I’m using plywood on sawhorses and sometimes I fight to get the workpiece to slide off the cast iron table. And I want to easily scrape up dried glue with a putty knife.
My choices are BLO, Tung, Danish, Teak, or Butcher Block oil, with no preference for any other than those are the 5 choices that I could see on the shelf at the BORG while I finished my beer. Since it’s a project bench that’s going to get very roughly abused, I want to put something on it, but not a poly. Not putting anything on it has already been discarded, this is my first wood project I’ve ever finished and didn’t fall apart over night. Don’t really care about what it looks like, I’m just looking for the best combination of oil, and maybe a paste wax? That I can reapply once a year and keep those workpieces sliding off the saw table.
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