Stopping timber splitting

[MattyBueeXP]

Ive seen people painting the ends of sawn timber with white paint stuff.What is it and where can I get it?

cheers 

[agg221]

It's paint. Wood dries a lot faster across the grain than along it so the idea is to block up the pores at the ends to stop them drying out faster, shrinking more than the middle and cracking. Anything that will cover it and block up the ends will do - emulsion, gloss, wax, doesn't really matter.

 

Alec

[Dillinger86]

I use pva

[Forest2Furniture]

You'll stop all the cracking but you will reduce it.

I use 50/50 mix pva & water

[devon TWiG]

Best not to mill wood this time of the year really !!!    but PVA works as well as anything else , and it is water based so easy to clean brushes ,  I acquired quite a few nice blocks of HC burr recently  ( about  12 ,  15" cubes )  and I have wrapped them in pallet wrap / clingfilm which will reduce drying and will help induce a bit of spalting  until I get around to using them .