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OK, here we go, we got the oil stain on the shack, I opened the 1st can & couldn't believe my eyes. I was expecting kind of a semi clear root beer colored oil but the dang stuff looked like paint, like rust colored paint. We didn't want a solid colored stain, we wanted to be able to see woodgrain. We didn't care if the stain darkened the wood but we didn't want it one solid color.

I sprayed some on a scrap piece of exterior sheting to see if it did something magical once it hit the wood... no dice.

We watched it for like 1/2 hour but it still just looked like paint, about the color of dead pine needles.
So, we headed to town very frustrated knowing we had wasted about $150 on the wrong kind of finish & we were going to just go with linseed oil this time because we knew what that would do for us.

so, drive to town, pick up $130 worth of linseed oil & head back out to the shack. We get back to find that the scrap board we sprayed actually looked pretty good

So, we sprayed it. We'll take the linseed back today.

Here's how the outside looks now.



And, some of the crew inside having some lunch.




Some more of the inside:


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And, one for Tzone.... an impression in the sand from Mr fork toed rutty-shmutty buck:
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