I used Deft Oil (Deft Danish Oil Finish) on a mesquite chair I made
recently. The pro's at Homestead Heritage recommended it. I'm quite
satisfied with it and it was easy to apply.

Deft has more varnish in it that other Danish Oils (or so I'm told).

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Finishing can sometimes be a pain--there's something in it that seems to
make polyurethane cure slowly and sometimes the first coat is lifted by
the
second. Shellac seems to stick fine but doesn't bring out the grain
particularly well. So far I've gotten the most attractive results with
either polyurethane or boiled linseed oil with shellac over, but that's
with "black" mesquite, not "honey" which is what most of the North
American
is, so YMMV.

Seems to glue all right but I haven't really tested it hard in that
regard.

If you don't use scrapers you may want to try one--the mesquite that I've
worked with scrapes beautifully.

-m

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