Woodvil customizing/modifications

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turbocad6

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I've been using tung oil, you can use tung oil for the first few applications after the raw sanding to build up a finish, then wax it occasionally after that... or don't, the tung goes deep and gives a lasting protection so you don't have to do much for a long time after a few coats I think, I just wipe it down occasionally with a damp cloth and good to go. if you want to avoid tung oil inside then you can use mineral oil which is a light odorless oil, the tung is heavier. if you really want to waterproof the interior then coat it with Cyanoacrylate (crazy glue). slick permanent and fully waterproof, no juice will seep through it, it's almost like a lexan coating. a little tricky to apply but excellent finish for the interior, many use it even as an exterior coating, can be polished to a like glass finish... personally I'm not crazy about it as a finish because it looks like a plastic coating and makes the wood look like it's plastic when it's high buffed but for the interior if you're building from scratch it's a nice bit of extra protection to avoid juices seeping into the wood
 

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I hear ya, I plan on using the Loctite gel cyano on the inside...it's one of my favorites, it applies super easy and doesn't run like water...it's only drawback is because of that you can lay it on pretty thick and it'll crack.

I think I'm going to go with the tung to start as you said...my wife loves Town Talk wood wax (it comes out of England, makes the whole house smell like oranges for a week :facepalm:)...it works awesome but once you hit it with that stuff you're committed
 

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here's a few pictures of the new stainless steel base. it's large enough that I had to overlap the door so it looks right. rob says the door is supposed to be removed going down anyway so all's good there, still goes down no problem :) I want to make a new door, this ones kind of loose fitting

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here's with provari beauty ring sitting on it

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and the 22mm origen v2


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35 watt chip soon to be updated to 40 watts and eventually there claiming 50 watts from this chip, this one I'm calling woodvil max :) it sits up tall next to it's woodvil brothers :)


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Wow, the gear you guys are building is amazingly good, and good-looking!

Quigs, a polished and oiled cocobolo is the ducks nutz IMHO. They feel really good in hand, no need to stop at a satin finish. Beware of the sanding dust from coco, it can be itchy at the bare minimum, and is known to cause allergic reactions, so be careful. I finished my cocobolo on a buffing wheel, I have only used pure petroleum jelly on mine so far (which seems to be fine) but ordered some Renaissance wax to try after reading a post by Pesky Human. Still waiting for it.
 

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I think I'm going to make my fire button like yours quigsworth, up on top. I've got plenty of room there where the original vv chip was. and yeah, I go 180/220,320,500 then 800 at least, really hard woods can go all the way to 1,500 and buffing even. some woods polish up more than others, I love my ebony for that reason, especially with the snakewood door, it's so smooth. the snakewood polishes to almost like glass. I've got a mod I made from ironwood that's also like that, smooth as glass but a silky smooth. if you want satin then go to 320 then tung, has a soft almost velvet feel to it when it's only finished to ~320, I like that finish better on my fiddleback walnut, feels like silk. cocobolo I think would be best high polished like the ebony
 
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