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After asking this forum what to use on some pretty red oak wood, someone mentioned hardening wax oils as a good option. I gave Odie's a try, mainly because these banisters can't be detached and Odie's doesn't smell as strong.

End result has been great. Application was easy. Buffed in the first cost, went to buff it out and it was totally dry, so I buffed a second coat in. Then 45 min later I buffed off the excess. Took about 3 hours total.

Water beads on the resulting finish, and really compliments the grain of the wood! Already planning to use Odie's on future projects.

I've got 4 varieties in my backyard. The one on the left is Amalia, and is on year three. Middle trellis has a year two Vista, and a new Willamette that was planted from a friend's crown. Far right is Multihead.

Looking like I should have a good sized crop this year.

I've had these banisters in my house for ages that had this really poorly done ugle brown/maroon paint. My wife got fed up with them and decided to strip and sand them.

Wonder of wonders, what's under there is some kind of dense hardwood with some great grain to it.

Now I'm trying to decide how to finish it.

My initial plan had been what I always do: basic stain plus a wipe on poly of some sort. Pretty good, pretty easy.

However, this is significantly higher quality wood than the cheap pine I usually work with. It was suggested to me I look into a Tung or Danish oil, and I've now fallen down a deep rabbit hole of wood finishing.

Any preferred finishes that emphasize grain for pretty wood in high traffic areas?

Here is a community I created for sharing recopies people have created themselves. This is intended to be exactly the opposite of Pinterest where everyone shares the same 10 recipes over and over again. Instead, everything in this community is intended to be original stuff come up by folks on Lemmy.

This may be too esoteric for the size of Lemmy's user base, but I've always wished that it existed... so here is my attempt.

What are everyone's recommendations on making android more private? Given Google's recent behavior around tracking and the like, I'm not really comfortable with then having all of my data. I've even contemplated going to iOS, since apple doesn't have a vested interest in me having less privacy... But I just don't like their OS lol.

I've tried GrapheneOS, and it's not awful. For usability, I did have to add Google apps back in, but at least they are sandboxes.

For the moment though, my daily driver is a Samsung S21. What can I do to make I more private?

So far, I have:

1. Switched to Samsung browser with adblock.
2. Started using duckduck go.
3. Installed duckduck go's app tracking protection. That was an eye opener.
4. Restricted location history in Google maps.

What else? I know Graphene is typically the gold standard, but I'm trying to see what I can do short of that.

Ingredients:

• 2 x Chicken Breasts
• 3 x Mangoes
• 1 x Can of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce (in Mexican/international food aisle)
• 2 x Limes
• 1 Tsp Lemon Pepper
• 1 Tsp Salt
• 4oz Light Sour Cream
• 1 x Onion
• 1 x Green Bell Pepper
• 1 x Can of Rotel
• ¾ Cup of Frozen Corn
• 3 x Small Avocados or 2 x Large Haas Avocados(just short of ripe is ideal)
• 1 dozen flour tortillas or 20 corn tortillas (Either works, just depends on taste preference)
• 1 Bag of white Mexican cheese

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Boil Chicken. If Chicken is frozen, place in water as it warms up. Cook 20-25 minutes if frozen, 15-20 if defrosted.

2. While chicken is defrosting, prepare sauce. Cut mangoes up over medium sauce pan, allowing excess juice to drain into sauce pan. Pulp mango into sauce pan. Remove chipotle peppers from can, chopping into fine chunks.

3. Add sauce from can and diced chipotles to sauce pan. Squeeze limes into sauce pan, and add Lemon Pepper and Salt. Simmer this combination on medium for about 10 minutes.

4. Add Sour Cream to sauce, continue to simmer on low until rest of ingredients are ready.

5. Dice the onion and the bell pepper. Place in fry pan with a small amount of oil to prevent sticking. Cook until browned. Dump browned onion and bell peppers in large mixing bowl. Once chicken is done cooking, shred the chicken and place in the large mixing bowl with the browned onion and bell peppers. Usually, I shred the chicken by taking two forks, and tearing it apart.

6. Skin and Dice the avacados into medium sized chunks. Add avocados, frozen corn, and rotel to large mixing bowl. Heat from chicken, onions, and peppers will defrost corn. Mix the contents of the bowl with a spoon until all ingriedients are evenly spread throughout.

7. Take a 13x9 baking pan. Place a couple of spoonfulls of sauce into the bottom to coat.

8. To form the enchiladas, take a tortilla, and fill with a couple of spoonfulls of the stuffing mixture from the large mixing bowl. Sprinkle a liberal helping of Mexican cheese, then roll the tortilla shut and place in the 13x9 pan. Repeat until pan is full.

9. Take any remaining stuffing and sprinkle in pan on top of the tortillas. A lot of the times corn and onions will be the main remainder, so this gets that all in the pan.

10. Pour remaining sauce over the rolled tortillas in the pan. Finish off by sprinkling any remaining cheese over the top.

11. Cook in oven at 350 for 20 minutes. Remove when sauce is bubbly and cheese is melted.

Hello world!

This community is for sharing whatever cool recipes you've come up with experimenting in your own kitchen. Only rule is all OC lol.

Totally fair to have a recipe you modified into something new, just don't repost your Nana's cousin's hair dresser's recipe for ambrosia. If you post it, you need to have come up with it.

Goal is for people to learn new recipes, and provide constructive feedback on how to make them better.

Had an 20+ year old pergola falling apart on my back porch. Designed and built this 16x12' guy over the course of 2 days.

I built the whole thing using and impact driver, and a miter saw for cuts. I used joist hangers for the cross pieces as well.

It's designed to handle up to 1 ft of snow without sagging, which would be a record for this part of NM. So far seems to be holding up.

Really happy with how it turned out.

John Clowdus and Small Box Games is one of my favorite "indie" publishers on Kickstarter. Neolithic is one of my top 5 two player games, and there are just so many great designs.

This Kickstarter is both an interesting design in it's own right, as well as an opportunity to grab some of his back catalog. It's never available at retail, so I'd recommend taking a look!

1. Get bored.
2. Open Reddit.
3. Remember I'm not using reddit today.
4. Open Lemmy.
5. Go do something else.
6. Go to number 1.