end coating?

What do you guys use to coat the ends of freshly milled hardwoods? Is it a special paint or stain? Or do you not use anything?

 

I want to say it's wax, keeps the boards from checking

 

Yep, wax works fine, Canning section of grocery store or farm store, then there are various speciality items as well- digs deeper in pocket

 

Enamel spary paint works.
Just about any spray paint helps.
No coating is totally air/water tight on wood,
it slows down the drying rate to help prevent the ends from splitting.

 

I suppose anything like paint or wax will work to help stop the checking

 

I believe the stuff that's sold as green log end sealer is some combination of wax and paint. I picked some up from Rockler and I've had pretty good results so far. These had been sitting about a month when I took the pic.

 

Are you going to mill those logs Shawn?

 

The one with the end sealer on it. The rest are going to be firewood. It's black locust, which holds up really well outdoors. I want to redo a park bench or two that I have with it.

It's small enough that I think I'm going to try to mill it on my vertical bandsaw. I built a couple roller tables for that purpose a few months back, but I've never done anything that big. That will be the real test for it.