LocalOak
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Hi
I have searched and haven't really found the answer I was looking for so here goes.
I am going to make some food caddies for teabags etc, effectively largish turned boxes from beech and possibly some ash as well. I want to get a hard gloss finish, and normally use microcrystaline wax over sanding sealer for my other turned things. However, this doesn't seem right for storing even dry foodstuffs.
I'd prefer a wax as SWIMBO likes the blond wood and I don't want to darken it too much.
The food safe oils seem to require regular re-coating which is fine for a salad bowl or utensils but isn't really what I want. And they are hard work to get to a gloss.
I've gone round the houses looking at various websites and am now thinking about the following choices.
1. Carnauba wax over food safe oil
2. Carnauba wax over EN71 safe sanding sealer
3. Chestnut hard wax
4. Liberon finishing oil
5. Chestnut finishing oil
6. Stick with microcrystalline wax over sanding sealer and just air it properly until all the solvent has gone.
And I haven't even considered lacquers or shellac.
Anyone done something similar and managed not to poison loved ones?
Thanks
Toby
I have searched and haven't really found the answer I was looking for so here goes.
I am going to make some food caddies for teabags etc, effectively largish turned boxes from beech and possibly some ash as well. I want to get a hard gloss finish, and normally use microcrystaline wax over sanding sealer for my other turned things. However, this doesn't seem right for storing even dry foodstuffs.
I'd prefer a wax as SWIMBO likes the blond wood and I don't want to darken it too much.
The food safe oils seem to require regular re-coating which is fine for a salad bowl or utensils but isn't really what I want. And they are hard work to get to a gloss.
I've gone round the houses looking at various websites and am now thinking about the following choices.
1. Carnauba wax over food safe oil
2. Carnauba wax over EN71 safe sanding sealer
3. Chestnut hard wax
4. Liberon finishing oil
5. Chestnut finishing oil
6. Stick with microcrystalline wax over sanding sealer and just air it properly until all the solvent has gone.
And I haven't even considered lacquers or shellac.
Anyone done something similar and managed not to poison loved ones?
Thanks
Toby