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Originally Posted by gbaglo
They sell food grade oil for cutting boards, if you intend to use it for that purpose. Keeps the board from drying out and splitting.
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Yes they do and yes I do but only part of it. The counter is actually 16 feet long and the longest butcher block I could find at a reasonable price was 12 feet. I got a 12 and an 8. I cut the sink plug out of the 8 footer, turned it sideways and left it unfinished, except for the oil. My son drilled and doweled it all so that it glued up nicely and is strong. That gave me a nearly 22 foot counter.
I trimmed both ends to put the sink in the right location and used the trimmed pieces for sideboards at the stove. The joint doesn't look like an afterthought. I looks really nice.
I don't mean to steal someone else's thread. I just meant to suggest that many very thin layers of varnish makes for a pretty smooth finish and doing it the way I did made it easy to put down lots of layers.
Also I used silica containing floor varnish which is more abrasion resistant than the typical product. Lots of things have been dragged across this counter over the past 6 years and there are very few scratches.
I did have to teach the daughters-in-law the difference between the cutting board part and the counter part though.
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