Chuck - With Baydog's indulgence, as good a place as any to talk about the PCO stuff you like so much. In so doing, its hard to not consider, too, the really excellent information provided by Salopian, Hansli, Dig, Yogi000 and others in the major thread still available here on Alkanet.
I remember your pictures of a beautiful PCO-finished stock which involved first sanding in cut down coats of PCO and then followed by PCO spray coats and a rubdown. Simple and beautiful. The thought I had was along the lines of starting a stock with sanded in coats of cut down PCO - - expediously filling the pores and sealing the wood - - and then moving on to Salopian's recipe and Hansli's finishing techniques. This may result in somewhat of a faster process at the stock filling stage than provided by traditional methods, while at the same time creating an excellent foundation for traditional oil.
What I will leave out of this scheme for present is when and how to color the stock, and, if so, with what. Behlen's Blood Red would very probably penetrate the PCO. Don't know how, or at what stage to use alkanet, if its the coloring agent of choice.
