I’ve found my finishing problem: I’m building things out of pine.
Traditional stain, gel stain, urethane, tung oil, danish oil…on oak, cherry or maple many of these look fine. No matter what I put on pine, it comes out looking like a septic prolapse.
I think I’ve figured up a way to make the pine project I’ve been working on all November tolerable. Then I think I’m swearing it off as a material for furniture.