Greetings and Salutations.

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 17:53:13 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

I bought a commercially made butcher block table, and when I refinished it a
few years back, I found a product called Behlen Salad Bowl Finish, certified
as food safe. I always put a plastic cutting board on the table for chopping
food, but very often, the chopped food ends up being dumped onto the table
while more gets chopped. Nothing has managed to stain this finish after
several years. As others have mentioned, NO finish will protect against the
mechanical savagery of knives, meat cleavers, etc.

This is true. That is why real butcher's blocks are made so
thick. Every so often a guy with a plane comes in and skims off the
top 1/8" or so, leaving a nice, smooth surface again. One can do
that a fair number of times before the block is gone when it is a foot
or more thick.
As for food safety....once again, I want to remind us all
that wood is SAFER than plastic...
http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/cutting_boards.htm


Go to www.garrettwade.com, and search for the word "Behlen". It's twelve
bucks a pint, or twenty for a quart. Went on easily, turned out nice.

-Doug


Yea, I have a quart of the stuff and use it on turnings.
It IS a pretty nice finish.
Regards
Dave Mundt