End seal advice.

[Lazurus]

I have some very large oak blanks to seal, recently cut and left in half logs. I usually use paraffin wax on my blanks as shown in the picture but these are way to big to dip in a tray of the stuff and would use a large amount, thinking of thin PVA but any better suggestions before this heat starts to crack them?

 

S.

[se7enthdevil]

just slap a couple of coats of pva on them stu.

 

rough turn them soon.

[Lazurus]

That was my thinking, just struggling for workshop time at the mo Steve and don't want to lose any more timber than I have to.

 

Cheers

[Andymacp]

just slap a couple of coats of pva on them stu.

 

 

 

rough turn them soon.

 

 

Do you thin the pva with anything ?

[se7enthdevil]

there shouldn't be any need especially if the wood is already wet as contact with the pva will thin it a tiny bit anyway.

[treequip]

Do you thin the pva with anything ?

 

Water works well, used dilute PVA on masonry, makes it less thirsty before painting

[Mike Dempsey]

If you thin it a bit, the pva will get absorbed into the wood and seal it better. Its also cheaper doing it this way. I normally get my pva from builders merchants as 5L of pva for floor sealing rather than expensive wood glue. Also if you are doing planks that have been cut a few days or more and the ends of the timber has dried out, I normally wet the ends first and the apply the sealer.

[Lazurus]

Watered it down by about 30% as the timber was starting to dry, sucked it up like a goodun, got them all coated as this morning you could see a sheen on the ends so the PVA hopefully did the job, I shall certainly be using it more in the future on bigger blanks.

[Woodworks]

If anyone is interested I have some PVA in large quantities free. I buy IBC tanks and use the cages for drying logs occasionally the tanks have some leftover in the bottom. It does not look much in 1000 litre tank but recon there must be 25 litres or more in some of them. Would not use it for glueing anything together but for sealing blanks it's ideal.

[Lazurus]

If anyone is interested I have some PVA in large quantities free. I buy IBC tanks and use the cages for drying logs occasionally the tanks have some leftover in the bottom. It does not look much in 1000 litre tank but recon there must be 25 litres or more in some of them. Would not use it for glueing anything together but for sealing blanks it's ideal.

 

Yes if you can post to Norfolk, happy to pay postage?