It's a little scratch and dent given it's made out of offcuts, scraps and extras from other projects but I think it came out okay. Three coats of fake "tung oil" finish and it came up to a nice warm semi-gloss, and ambered up the pine enough to take the edge off the grain.
Detail shot of the side hung, center guided drawer and its rabbeted dovetail front and shop made handle.
Yeah I'm going on a bit of a victory lap here, I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out.
The finish I used on this night stand is a product by Minwax called "tung oil finish." It's a blend of drying oil and wiping varnish. I don't know if it has any actual tung oil in it.
Neither sunflower oil nor olive oil are suitable as a wood finish, those oils don't polymerize the way tung, walnut or linseed oil does, so they'll stay liquid on or just soaked into the wood, and then they'll go rancid. Which is why they warn you off of using basically any vegetable oil for conditioning cutting boards or butcher blocks.