
I may still be practicing dovetails joints, and not yet ready to make any fancy, but I was curious and started looking into how to finish my eventual (amazing) work.
A lot of videos I watched mention sealing the wood with various types of oil, linseed oil being a common choice. I had no idea where to buy anyone, and I didn’t want a giant bottle of it anyway. Instead I found a rather handy blog post with a detailed how to about making a beeswax and olive oil polish and sealant. (Both items you can easily purchase at Wholefoods)
I won’t reiterate his steps here since he already wrote a great tutorial with pictures of each step. Instead here are two of my dovetail practice pieces before and after the finish was applied.
Check after the jump to see the test pieces.