Pwnery Tinkers - Butcher Knife Block Restoration
3This is definitely not my normal kind of video, but it gave me an excuse to try a new device for future videos I'll record (well, the last part of the video employed it).
Waaaaay back when I was a wee lad, my Dad finally got a deployment back stateside in good old White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and he was able to bring my Mom who became a citizen shortly after they were married back from his previous station in South Korea. They were given house-warming gifts by a few of the couples living around the base, and one of those gifts included a knife-set which came with this pretty nice butcher-block type rack. This was new ... maybe in 1980? It might be older than that, but that's when they received it.
Fast forward to 2021, and I bought them a set or two with new racks, but Mom hung onto it, and after seeing my handiwork with a few rifle-stock refurbs, she asked if I could maybe give this old block a once-over. Sure, why not. That's what you get to see here - a little something out of the ordinary and definitely not something I had planned on doing, but I think it turned out okay.
In this short little video, I show the ins and outs of stripping and refinishing an old wood knife-block. What made this particularly challenging was the different grains of wood, battered by 30+ years of use, but in the end, it will still yield and give up the goods. I went after this using 40, 80, 100, 200 and 400 grit sand papers and taking my time and blocking it evenly. Afterwards, I had applied several coats of Watco Danish oil - Red Mahogany, and several coats of Minwax Tung Oil to really seal it up. Overall, I'm pleased with it, and Mom was too.
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