Finishing wet wood, learning process from @gobywalnut

Name: Finishing wet wood, learning process from @gobywalnut
Uploaded: 2025-06-04T18:29:29.000Z
Duration: 62 s
Channel: gobywalnut
Description: The speaker discusses the challenges of finishing wet wood, shares past failures with tung and linseed oil, and introduces a new experiment using coconut oil. He demonstrates the sanding and oil application process, hoping to find a solution that allows moisture to escape while maintaining a good finish, sharing the experience as an adventure for viewers to learn from.

The speaker discusses the challenges of finishing wet wood, shares past failures with tung and linseed oil, and introduces a new experiment using coconut oil. He demonstrates the sanding and oil application process, hoping to find a solution that allows moisture to escape while maintaining a good finish, sharing the experience as an adventure for viewers to learn from.

Creator: @gobywalnut on Instagram

Transcript

We screwed up. So since there's not a lot of information on finishing wet wood, especially wood of this size, we've done some experiments over the course of a few years, which have failed. So in the past, we've tried a tung oil and linseed oil combination, Even though we allowed it to cure over the course of the summer, still never fully cured and left sort of a waxy build up residue, which you could actually scrape off of your fingernail. Learning from that mistake, we've sanded off all that fi

Topics: DIY, Craftsmanship, Business

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