trivet finish?

a little waterlox or arm r seal and call it done….one coat light scuff with some steel wool or abrasive pad a second coat and enjoy..just to seal them up a bit..if one coat feels good…leave it at that

I have used water based poly.

So far mine have held up well. They are used on the dining room table so the hottest item to be placed on them would be a casserole from the oven.

If your going yo put hot items on them, I would just use mineral oil. Something hot can damage the poly or even a sealer.

-- Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy-May all your dovetails fit tight and right the first time

I have made many cross-cut trivets. These are the type with dados with the depth slightly more than 1/2 the thickness. The dados on the underside are at 90 degrees to those on the top side so there is a full cutout at the dado intersections. I have used mineral oil on all of these and they have held up well.

-- I finally got it together, but now I can't remember where I put it.

Walnut oil, I use it on all my spoons, works great and doesn’t wash out like mineral oil.

-- IN REMEMBRANCE OF MY NEPHEW: Cpl. Ben Desilets - USMC KIA 22 May 2007 Anbar Iraq