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First photo yeah moisture from below the block has crept up. Second photo makes it look past saving even by my book! Also looks like it's been varnished? Kinda blistered in places, once varnish is blown its a lot of work to strip fully back. Oil is a lot more suited to be being reworked.
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No varnish afaik. The first is actually the top surface so hand drips etc, and the lighting makes it look especially bad, but that's the worst bit where the 2 part filler has trapped water behind it and bought back the rot.
Stone inset in wood is the dream. Half surprised that's not a more standard solution. Will investigate more.
Polygon
Thanks for the comprehensive reply.
My insurmountable problem with this top seems to be that it's been cut flush/slightly shy of the sink edge, no overhang or drip bead so silicon required, which seems to be a point at which the moisture is retained and the rot sets in. I also patched up a little bit with 2pac filler previously which seems not to have worked as it's just allowed water ingress around it and started to open up and root again.
I feel like the best solution is probably a new wood top cut with a bigger overhang and drip bead fitted without silicon, which is a compromise to the maintenance and finishing that'll bring, but otherwise means mismatching tops with the rest of the kitchen (where wood works just fine) or replacing the whole lot with stone/Corian etc. which I don't have the budget for. I guess the advantage would be that I could potentially buy and cut it ahead of time and spend a few weeks really going to town on the sanding and oiling.
I also hate the sink for it's tiny strainer trap but I don't think there's much that can be done about that without a larger remodel of the area.