That's what the Boos butcher block "miracle cream" is - beeswax and mineral oil. The bees do the miracle, and Boos sells it.
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Cutting Board material
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Dulls tools, eh? Nothing like dragging your $100.00 W=FCsthof across that stuff then. I know absolutely nothing about Ipe, but I won't be using that for a cutting board. Thanks for the input.
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Boos makes fantastic stuff. I promoted their products many years ago. Then a Canadian distributor got his greedy ass in the middle of the product flow and walked off with all the fun(profit) *I* was having and priced themselves right out of the running in most quotes. I now use a guy who is 98% there in terms of quality, way better pricing, but not as much selection...but he won't finish his product. With all the peanut-product scares, he doesn't want to deal with liability issues where he could be blamed should something go awry.
I use whale oil boiled with seal blubber and tinted with oak rust.
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Baby, infant, immature seals, with BIG eyes, I hope ...
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"Robatoy" wrote
That sounds like a typical Canadian finish.
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That reminds me of the excellent bumper sticker which covers the hate of durnnear everything:
NUKE THE GAY BABY WHALES FOR JESUS
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Tangent... I was in woodcraft and a few guys were talking about Ipe. They got into a discussion about how to pronounce it. One guys said, "I pronounce it eye-pay," the other guy said, "I pronounce it eepay," the third said, "I hear it's just pronounced like pipe." I was walking by and said, "I pronounce it, Brazilian Walnut."
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between sips....... (pheeew)
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Be careful not to cross contaminate when you club them.
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Two seals walk into a bar. Bartender says: "what can get for you?" One seal says: "anything but a Canadian Club."
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The sipping ads the secret ingredient, saliva, and is a precursor to the application process... spitting/spraying it all over the top of the cutting board.
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Be careful with that because there is a very nice variety of walnut also grown in Brazil (I remember seeing a great rack of boards 18 inches wide and all heart backalong, right next to the cabinet-grade Ipe).