This board is a beast!!

[chopsaw]

completely submerged over night in mineral oil, then buffed them with a cotton buffing wheel.

I finish sand , then spritz with water . Let that dry , then I hand scrape with a heavy duty razor blade and resand . The end grain boards soak over night , face and edge grain get a couple heavy coats .
After the oil dries , I rub 'em down with homemade board wax and hand buff .
The 2 cherry with maple pattern are end grain . They really soak up the oil and wax .

 

[forktender]

Rich,
Where is a good place to buy S.S. wood scrapers?

I have an old'ish acoustic Martin guitar , the last tech that worked on it put a decent gouge on the face of it. It should come out reasonably easy. He was a super nice guy, so I didn't want him to get in trouble with his manager, so I said don't worry about it, he was relived big time.
Years later I want to sand down the face then scrape it to thin the face down, to get rid of the mar, and to see if a thinner face will brighten it up a touch.

The old Martins had much thinner faces than the model I have, which is a D10E. It's not an heirloom guitar, so I'm willing to risk messing it up. I won't even remove the bridge plate, I'll used the scraper around it.
Then it I'll have a thin coat of nitro sprayed on it, or I might give it a hand oiled finish, I haven't decided yet. If the face turns out nice, I'll probably do the back as well. (It's worth experimenting with to me).

 

[chopsaw]

decent gouge on the face of it.

Is it scratched / cut , or is it a contoured dent ?
If it's dented , you might try a wet rag and a hot iron . That steams the damaged area and might cause it to lift .

(It's worth experimenting with to me).

If your set on thinning it down ,( doing the whole face ) you can get the card scrapers at any wood working supply , or on Amazon .

I would do the back first , and see how that turns out . If good , do the front . If you don't like it , leave the front as is . Back will hide itself if you're using it for display .

 

[Steve H]

Rich,
Where is a good place to buy S.S. wood scrapers?

I got mine from Rockler.

 

[forktender]

I got mine from Rockler.

Awesome, I have one 5 minutes from my house.
Thank you, Steve.

 

[Steve H]

Awesome, I have one 5 minutes from my house.
Thank you, Steve.

I'm glad I don't have one close by! That'd be bad!!!!