Post #486698 by TheBigT on Tue, Oct 6, 2009 12:52 PM

Seeks, Kino: Thanks a bunch for looking in! Seeks, I think the concensus was that it's hackberry. ??

So, I'm pretty bad at posting regular updates. Here are a couple of photos from over a week ago after the 1st coat of stain on the spalted log. I first started with a wash coat shellac thinned 10 to 1 with denatured alcohol. I didn't really notice how much it raised the grain until I put the first coat of (thinned) stain on.

It came out waaay darker than I wanted to I had to sand it smooth again.... that sucked. And it was pretty nasty looking overall.