I love doing this to random items.

I loathe doing this to the deck outside.

Have you been introduced to cast iron?

If not, I think you’ll enjoy it.

I find polishing my wood a few too many times in close frequency gives me soreness of the shoulders and elbow. Doing a little jerking off first can help loosen up for the important bits.

Whats your tung oil routine?

As someone that's been doing woodworking for the last couple of years: buy a pack of sandpaper of various grits to smooth and watco natural or medium walnut color danish oil to finish. Will cost you like $40 on Amazon or at a hardware store, but will let you see how you like the hobby without having to learn a ton. If you like it, get a saw and a 2x4 and make some simple little household object like a key hook or poop knife. Once you've started making handy little things for yourself, you'll get sucked in and develop a nuanced taste in glues and sandpaper while spending all of your money on the "one more tool I need" and growing to fully occupy all space in the garage. The custom furniture is a nice plus.

I've got a bunch of wooden utensils I need to do this to. I'm more of a wax/oil paste guy myself though. Guess I know what I'm up to tomorrow afternoon

Get you some quality wood handled tools. If it has that shiny slick varnish whatever on the handle, scrape that shit off with a sharp knife and season the fuck out of those handles!

Wait till you discover conditioning leather

Agreed. Did my wood knife handles recently. Gotta do my spatulas, maybe some spoons even.

I made bbq from scratch a couple days ago. I'm talking boiling the tomatoes down with garlic and onions, brown sugar, fermented tamarinds, little liquid smoke. It's silly but I enjoyed myself.

My wife would love if I did this to her cutting boards. You mind sharing what oils and wax you used?

Are you me? This is blow-for-blow exactly what has happened to me over the last year or so. I am hanging on by a thread against the desire to get into woodworking, someone send help.

What wax did you use?

Join us over at woodworking@lemmy.ca, which seems to be the place for woodworking on the fediverse.

See if there is a woodworker you can team up with. Sanding and finishing is loathed and dreaded by us, at least in my carpentry circle. We want the cutting and glueing and clamping jobs.

I have a bunch of magnets and I want to put bumpers on them for protection, and make some kind of sliding puck game. Could this technique shine up something and make it slippery like a shuffleboard surface?