Anchorseal is a great product to reduce splitting and checking of wood.
Like their advertising says, Anchor seal reduces end checks in wood when it dries by about 80%. You'll still lose a few boards, and some still check, but it is much, much less. I use this to coat bowl blanks for lathes and it does a great job of stabilizing the blanks even though a bowl blank is mostly end grain. Anchorseal 2 is water clean up and goes on like white latex paint, but then dries nearly clear, though a little bit milky still. When I'm coating highly figured wood like burls and crotchwood, I'll often use polyurethane instead so I can better see the grain. Most of the time however, I use Anchorseal 2. This is a great product.
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