I'm new here, but old everywhere else. I haven't been on the web for years now, so the list of acronyms has been a help already. Everything's changed...,
Does anybody use PEG [polyethylene glycol] anymore? It used to be a WTF.[Wood Turners Favourite] (Sorry, Canadian spelling.)
My late uncle was an Austrian craftsman. He used it to displace the water in wood stock to resist cracking before turning or shaping bowls, banisters, gun stocks, etc. Used to buy it by the barrel here in Canada..., half a century ago.