why would you varnish it?
looks like any piece of wood that has been stained and varnished
it it were a rare piece of wood with natural colouring it would be best to leave 'au naturel'
+1.
This screamed out loud to me the first time I saw it and has done ever since.
It looks like some form of high gloss polyurethane varnish, totally inappropriate treatment for a rare piece of very hard wood (if that's what it is).
The touch of BTC in the cells is brilliant.
Yeah, a visual play on the
BTC growing in the hive.
To have bees waxed the finished item would have been in keeping with this and allowed some patina to develop in the future, rather than gloss varnishing it to look like plastic.
Yes, I do know what I'm talking about. No, I am not someone else. Yes, I would like to see the carving video.