"Puckdropper" wrote

"Don Richard" wrote in
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I have just finished a bread box for my son
It is made from pine and finished with minwax stain and a water based
varathane clear
Problem is smell from pine or finish seems to enter breads put in box
What should I use for finish ???

I'd use a little time. Give it about a month or so in a well ventilated
area (outside?) and let the pine and finish off-gas.


I agree.

Also, time spent in the sun seems to "cure" what needs to be cured for the
smell to go away. This is an old Watco Danish Oil finish trick. It seems
to work with other finishes as well.