My last gut feeling cost me a whole control board.

My weirdest catch was when the coolant smelled like burnt plastic. Turns out the program forgot to turn on the spindle.

Visual impact" is such a weak reason to block clean power.

Yeah, boiled linseed oil is a mess waiting to happen on walnut. I read a woodworking forum thread where a bunch of people said the same thing, that it just stays gummy forever. The problem is the oil can't polymerize right if you put it on too thick, and walnut's dense grain doesn't help. That old advice works for some open-grained woods but it's a gamble on walnut. You basically have to do whisper-thin coats and wait weeks between them, which nobody has time for. Stripping it was your only real move.

Microscopes don't lie, but our eyes do.