Howdy folks..

I am on the hunt for a little bit of advice, I was over visiting the folks the other day, a few times the old man has expressed an interest in straight shaving, so I have a few restores I'm working on and thought it would be a good idea to work him up one of those as a Christmas present (I work slow ) anyhoo on visiting them I noticed they had been doing a bit of DIY and there was this chunk of pine wood and it was ever so pretty lol so I kinda convinced them to hand it over, so I'm about to slice it up to make scales for this razor, but as you'll likely know pine is rather soft, so would it be a good idea to coat this with some form of varnish when I make the scales?

Any help here would be much appreciated as this is my first rescale, and I wanna get a lot out of it

Geek