Best finish for workbench? by kbrunco, september 16, 2011 in finishing. what kind of wood? 2. what finishing products do you already know? 3. what finishing techniques do already know? share this post. spend the rest of your life distressing the benchtop by randomly cutting into it with planes, chisels, saws and anything else you find. No treatment is going to make a soft wood bench-top harder. i much favor a "in the wood finish". here are two that lots of folks find effective. first, is an boiled linseed oil and wax finish. sand the surface to 180 grit. mix paraffin or bees wax into heated boiled linseed oil. use a double boiler to heat the oil.. A film finish (lacquer, shellac, varnish, poly varnish) is not the way to finish a workbench top. a workbench is going to get dinged and film finishes will crack or craze or be otherwise damaged. once a film finish is penetrated, it looses its effectiveness and adjacent areas begin to fail..
I just use paste wax on my bench top and leave it at that. wax sure won’t meet all of the criteria you are after, but it’s fast and easy to repair, and things don’t stick well to it. it also doesn’t leave the bench slippery smooth on top, like a film-forming finish can.. Best finish for a softwood workbench? by chris marshall • apr 11, 2017. my bench top is made of 3-in. thick douglas fir bridge planks, which are about 12 inches wide. the top measures 3 ft. by 8 ft. and the thickness of the planks. i have used this bench since about 1974. order woodworking plans, dvds and supplies. woodworker's. I have used a bowling alley 7' length made of maple and pine for my bench top. i have it sanded and planed to new wood as level as i can get it..
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