"toller" wrote in
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It does look interesting, but end grain? Won't is suck up anything
liquid on it?
No, it is completely saturated with BLO. And I mean competely. If
you apply it to the top, some wicks out the bottom. Let it dry a
while, apply more, etc. It weights significantly more than the raw
wood.

Red oak, and other ring porous woods? Think a bundle of drinking straws...

Patriarch