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A shaker table for the front porch
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Thanks! The finish I've used on all of my outdoor projects so far is Minwax Helmsman spar urethane. I thin it to about 60/40 with paint thinner and wipe it on with rags cut from old T-shirts, 4 coats ~8 hours apart, rubbing out between coats with a paper grocery bag. Takes on a very nice feel and water beads right off. We'll see how it holds up long-term but so far I like it.
Yeah that guitar neck looks a lot like how I make those scrap coasters. You end up with thin cutoffs from ripping rough stock to width, so joint them, glue them up into a narrow little panel, plane it to a uniform thickness of about 3/8" or so, cross-cut it into squares, put a roundover or a chamfer on them to dress them up, sand and apply your preferred finish. I've used Minwax's "I Can't Believe It's Not" Tung Oil Finish (basically it's danish oil) on the one in the photo, just today I made a set specifically for outdoor use that I put spar urethane on.