After a couple of coats of clear. I did use sanding sealer on it, but clearly not very well! There's still huge pits in it from the pores, although I'm sure I can solve that with many thin coats of clear.
There's a few stuff ups in it as you can see from the filler marks, I broke 2 scratchplate screws off in it even though I'd drilled pilot holes... not sure if I was too gung ho, the screws were chocolate or the timber was really hard. I'm thinking all three. Luckily all of the stuff ups are completely covered when assembled, got away with is so far!
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