You might consider a CA finish, which is easy. CA is cyanoacrylate, or super glue. On my last knife, I did 8 layers of CA sanding to 400 grit after the first 6 and 1000 after the last 2. Then I buffed with tripoli and it really shines! It feels like plastic and is extremely durable. You can apply the superglue using q-tips. It usually take three ends of a q-tip to apply each coat. The biggest advantage of a CA finish is time. It takes a couple minutes for coat to dry, instead of the several hours it takes for the various oils and poly finishes to dry. Total time for my last handle finish was about 1 hour.