I have just finished making a counter top out of birds eye maple with
2 1/4" strips of paduk. It is about 2 x 6 feet in size. Anyway, it will be used as a bar to sit at and eat or drink while in the kitchen. Thus there will be wet glasses and such on it. I bought some bush oil (to pop the grain) and some "rockhard table top finish" at Woodcraft, but I don't really like the looks of it when I applied it to some scrap. It just came out too glossy and commercial looking, also darkened it too much. I then tried just using boiled linseed oil on another sample and liked the shade it produced better. So my question is can I then just apply some MinWax over the BLO and still get enough protection? I think I'll start with a satin and move to gloss if it doesn't look right.-Jim