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 ???

"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'm not 100% sure this will work, but if all it costs is time...

Puckdropper
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"Don Richard" wrote in message
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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 ???


It may not be too late to put a couple of coats of shellac on it. That what
I'd use in place of the poly to start with. Time will help also. Leave it
open to the air for a few weeks.

"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.

"Don Richard" wrote in message
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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 ???



Shellac

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 20:32:52 -0300, "Don Richard"
wrote:

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 ???


Shellac is good. Thin it down for the interior, similar to a spit
coat used inside drawers. Or, you can use (pharmacy-grade) mineral
oil.

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 20:32:52 -0300, "Don Richard" wrote:

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 ???

Keep the bread in a plastic bag until the smell goes away... Or enjoy the smell,
assuming it's pine and not the verathane..
Plastic coated pine just doesn't smell as good as pine, ya know?


mac

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've used coffee grounds to reduce/mask smells like that. I put them
in a refrigerator thatwas going to be closed for a several months, and
it was ok when opened. You could make some little sachets of grounds
(fresh ones, not used) stapled into a coffee filter and leave them in
the closed box.

One of the tragedies of my growing up was discovering that coffee
never tasted as good as it smelled.

Old Guy

On Nov 3, 5:32 pm, "Don Richard" wrote:
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 ???

On Nov 7, 2:52?am, Old Guy wrote:
've used coffee grounds to reduce/mask smells like that. I put them
in a refrigerator thatwas going to be closed for a several months, and
it was ok when opened. You could make some little sachets of grounds
(fresh ones, not used) stapled into a coffee filter and leave them in
the closed box.

One of the tragedies of my growing up was discovering that coffee
never tasted as good as it smelled.

Old Guy

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It is made from pine and finished with minwax stain and a water based
varathane clear
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I've made bread boxes and found that painting the interiors with a low-
odor, semi-gloss, water-based paint does the trick and still provides
a wipe-off surface for cleaning.

FoggyTown