Looking for an extremely fast and simple method for a finished built-in?

This Baltic birch plywood desktop received a maple face strip, was sanded with 320-grit on a random-orbit sander, then finished with one heavy coat of Watco's® dark Satin Finishing Wax. It's in service daily, and at the two-year mark it still looks good.

Read more about the subtleties of sanding, and wax as a stand-alone finish in Contemporary Relationships between Wood & Finish.