Reply by lumberjoe

I’m hoping I don’t need to shorten it a lot. I don’t like darker end grain, so while I sand the edge grain to 220, I sand the end grain to 1000, and I go really light with the MO on the ends. In the picture above, you can see the color of the end grain matches the edge grain perfectly. Hopefully not much got through – but I fear the walnut really wicked it in regardless.

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