<p dir="ltr">You can soak it in Linseed oil.</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 11:29 AM Steve Bigelow <<a href="mailto:sbig333@gmail.com">sbig333@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">The bark will stay on better if the tree is cut during the winter. <div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">You'll need to make sure it it is dry and stabilized. Also, use something like Pentacryl to help stabilize it. </div><div class="gmail_msg">You could use Cactus Juice to stabilize as well, but that gets pretty expensive. It's about $100 per gallon. Of course, Pentacryl is in the same price range, but you don't need to use as much.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Use CA glue to glue back together split pieces, and use colored epoxy to help fill in splits.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Drilling out the center tends to help keep the piece from splitting. </div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">I would use maple or walnut for something like this. Cherry seems to split if you look at it wrong, so that's probably your worst choice.</div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br clear="all" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_-6919457156724488243gmail_signature gmail_msg" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">Regards,<br class="gmail_msg">-Steve<br class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://woodworking.bigelowsite.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://woodworking.bigelowsite.com</a><br class="gmail_msg"></div><a href="http://pen-blanks.us" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://pen-blanks.us</a><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div>
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