"Toller" wrote:

I have never used tung oil; it seemed too expensive for what it was.

At a garage sale today I bought a large, very old, bottle of pure tung oil
for $0.50.
I emptied it into a clean bottle and found it was a very syrupy brown
liquid.
The 100% tung I got from Woodcraft and Rockler was nearly clear--only
very light tan. But definitely syrupy. I followed advice I found
somewhere to use 50/50 mix with solvent for deep penetration of first
coat.
I put in about 10% turp and it thinned up to a reasonable
consistancy.

I put some on a scrap of mahogany, with BLO next to it. It is hard to tell
the two apart, but maybe the tung is a tad lighter.
Having used turp for the solvent, you probably won't be able to tell,
but the smell is dramatically different. BLO has a very strong (but
not unpleasant to me) smell. Tung has a very mild smell that reminds
me a little of peanut oil.

Don't know how it dries
since I just did it.
My experience is that it is slower curing than BLO, but faster than
raw linseed oil, of course.

Does this sound like a usable product, or has it gone bad from long storage?
The brand is "Hope". Seems like a good idea...


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