wood gloat...

Nothing trickey with walnut. It will look great when you apply a finish. A word of caution though, compared to Oak, Walnut is relative soft IMHO and it will easily ding if you are not careful with it.

Naw... Any good latex paint will do.

djb

can only guess that you put ketchup on a good t-bone steak too...pine or poplar for you...

Nothing wrong with jummy wood, but I do like walnut (I've done some small boxes and ornaments with it) and am currently working on a coffee table that will be a combo of oak and some old softwood that I think is fir (recycled from a very old table).

Seriously, I typically finish hardwood with tung oil and paste wax.

And for the steak, it's HP sauce.

djb

...even HP is a foul (I come from a long line of meat people and they turn over in their graves enough as it is...if you don't like the taste of plain beef, order chicken) but please no latex paint on oak or walnut.

Tom Kohlman responds:

I always like the people who love the taste of---insert game type---and can't wait to get some. Cook it until it's rigid, then coat it with salsa and keep going, "Mmmmmmmmmmm, great!"

Charlie Self "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." Mark Twain

I suppose you don't even use salt? Heck, why even cook the stuff? Why even skin the cow? Just walk out into the pasture and chow down!

;-)

You're built too low to the ground, Tom... The fast ones go over your head!

djb

What's HP sauce? I cringe whenever my wife puts ketchup or A1 on her steak, especially since I usually pick out the cuts we eat.

What a waste of a good cut of meat.

Joe

djb

"Charlie Self"

That reminds me of an old Carp recipe. Catch a Carp, and nail the whole thing on to a board. Put both in the oven and bake at 500 degrees for 5 hours. Then remove both from the oven, remove the Carp and throw it away. Eat the board.

Sorta like cooking a cormorant, 'cept with a board instead of a brick, and a carp instead of a cormorant.

djb

...damn...I've been found out on my beef eating habits (hidden cameras everywhere I guess...I knew I should of stayed away from that funny looking hay bale). But I'll repeat, no latex paint on oak or walnut...oil-base paint works much better.

LOL!

djb

They you can apply one of those "antiquing kits" to add some wood grain to make it look authentic. Ed

If you're good with those paints, you can make walnut look just like birch.

I've never seen that product for sale around here. Must be a regional thing.

Sears sells one in a walnut color.

sheeesh. j4

Edw>

Dunno where "round here" is but it'a available across Canada and I have friends on both the east and west US coasts that use it.

djb

On 5 Feb 2004 06:33:18 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@execpc.com (BIG JOE) scribbled:

A little more than regional. It's your region that is deprived.

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