Desert Varnish and Ken's Wood

Dan Mabbutt
Jul 4, 2024
1 min read

Updated: Jul 7, 2024

Ken polished a piece of petrified wood that my dad collected and beat the heat at the same time. Ken discovered what he called a "Kaleidoscope of Color" underneath a think coat of "Desert Varnish".

The blog is in a PDF that you can download and read here!

3 Comments

Trent Burroughs

Jul 04, 2024

Wow, he took off a lot of material! Do you know what grinder attachment he used?

Dan Mabbutt

Jul 05, 2024

Replying to

I contacted Ken (I have a policy of not sharing any personal identification information about customers.) Here's what he wrote:

"Standard Hardin wet grinder with diamond grits 50 through 3000. But I got a feeling looking at the backside before pictures which would have meant major material removal and loss of most of bark and knots that it confused him."

If anybody is responsible for confusion, it's me. The pictures in the blog are the front end (polished) and the back end (still rough). I figured that would be good enough for "before" and "after".