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However, as I suspected, the wood under the black paint does actually look nice. It’s variegated and a richer brown than expected when it is brown. What I didn’t expect, though, is that the paint soaked very deeply in places. I will never be able to sand out some of these black spots.
On the other side of the ledger, tung oil finish is way easier to deal with than I thought. It is actual oil, not “oil.” It’s not at all noxious and goes on really quickly.