Post #40132 by Basement Kahuna on Fri, Jun 20, 2003 12:27 AM

I'm sort of a spring chicken at this, (I've been carving about a year and a half) but I've heard several times that if you cut about a 2-inch deep chainsaw groove up the back of a carved log that it relieves all the pressure and will keep splitting at bay. Other than that I'd polyurethane the heck out of that sucker, but use a satin, not gloss.