Thin your oil based varnish of choice and apply it the same as the
watco, lots of thin coats.use fine sandpaper between coats. Unless
gloss varnish, keep it well mixed in the can at all stages. I have
come to prefer quick drying varnish for this process as I'm an
impatient finisher....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda & Tom Hall" 
To:
Cc:
Sent:Sun, 16 Jul 2017 10:15:08 -0400
Subject:Re: [OldTools] Sap Wood

 Hi All,

 Just finished a Walnut coffee table designed around it’s sap wood.
 The base has no sap wood and is beautiful dark brown normal figured
Walnut.
 The top has highly figure pillowed grain with some sap wood edges for
contrast.
 I have used Watco Danish Oil on all surfaces and it POPS the grain, I
need a
 highly usable top surface and am looking to use a glossy oil spar
varnish finish
 on the top. Has anyone tried this?

 Tommy Hall
 Amesbury, MA
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