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Title: finishing wood with vegetable oil? Post by xxkid123 on Feb 26th, 2010 at 10:51am
can you give wood an oil finish with cooking grade vegetable oil? i think you probably can, but it might rancid or something.... you guys (and gals) can probably see i'm incompetent with wood working lol.
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Title: Re: finishing wood with vegetable oil? Post by paleoarts on Feb 26th, 2010 at 11:06am
kid, i know a lot of bow makers who regularly oil their bows with vegetable (usually corn or olive) oil. it isn't to give the wood a finish so much as to keep it supple and from drying out. an easy way to give most woods a simple finish is burnishing. that's where you rub the surface with something smooth and hard, like glass or a very smooth stone. this compacts the outer grain and leaves a shiny surface. real oil finishes like tung oil and linseed oil have other ingredients in them than just oil. with tung oil, you apply a coat, let dry for ten minutes, then wipe off the sticky excess and buff.
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Title: Re: finishing wood with vegetable oil? Post by Masiakasaurus on Feb 26th, 2010 at 5:12pm
I addition to what Paleo said, an oil finish is usually something that will soak in a little and then dry leaving the top of the wood with a protective shell of finish. Vegetable oil will not dry, but does prevent weathering, warping, and cracking. You may want to buy Linseed oil (natural but high effort), varnish/clear coat (synthetic and harmful fumes), or burnish (most labor intensive, but costs nothing) like Paleo said.
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Title: Re: finishing wood with vegetable oil? Post by curious_aardvark on Feb 26th, 2010 at 7:04pm
walnut oil is extremely good.
It's used quite a lot by woodturners to give a durable finish to food bowl interiors. |
Title: Re: finishing wood with vegetable oil? Post by walter on Feb 26th, 2010 at 11:09pm xxkid123 wrote on Feb 26th, 2010 at 10:51am:
kid, yes, you can, but, yes, it will go rancid. Boiled linseed is probably the most commonly used wood oil. I use it on gunstocks, bunny sticks, hiking sticks, etc. walter |
Title: Re: finishing wood with vegetable oil? Post by Et Cetera on Feb 26th, 2010 at 11:50pm
Where do you get linseed oil?
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Title: Re: finishing wood with vegetable oil? Post by walter on Feb 27th, 2010 at 11:13am Et Cetera wrote on Feb 26th, 2010 at 11:50pm:
I got mine at the local hardware store. Walmart might have it. A paint store? walter |
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