Wood hardener method

Meridian Blades

Meridian Blades

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If you use wood hardener as a method to "stabilize" please shoot me a PM. I'm going thru boxes during this shop renovation and found a bunch of stuff that was soaked in it.......

Larry
 
If you talking about Minwax wood hardener, the problem with it is that it IS NOT waterproof! If wood that has been treated with it gets wet, it will produce a "milky" colored hazed throughout the wood.

I found this out by accident several years ago, I was playing around with stabilizing, and had tried Miniwax wood hardener on a batch. I had set it out on the picnic table to dry, and forgot it overnight....we had a heavy dew that might, and the next morning when I found it, all the pieces where pasty white on the outside, and when I cut into them, where milky all the way through!

Although some folks have reasonably good ways to stabilize, after that incident, I gave up on it. For me it's not worth the wasted time and materials when I can just have it done by the professionals, and be confident that I'm getting the best finished product I can.
 
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I agree Ed, but the only alternative is to toss the material in the garbage, so I thought I would offer it up to any folks that still use the wood hardener. Some people have had success with it (or a combo of that and other stuff), but I don't use it. If nobody wants it, then I guess I will pitch it. ;)

Larry
 
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Heck I will take it if you are just going to toss it:D

I have been wanting to try a few experiments to wood hardened wood but I stopped using it after the first two I did.
 
I didn't forget about this FREE stuff.... Heres a pic and theres a variety. Crotch walnut, redwood burl, box elder burl, and some other stuff. I think I have enough for 3 small flat rate boxes.

The people who emailed me before, please send $6 bucks for shipping to my paypal and I will get the boxes out to you.

Larry

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