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Peter Huebner

In article , jim-
says...
I have used Formby's tung oil on oak, and it works quite well. However,
when I checked to container to see what kind of juice it has, all I could
see was "contains Aliphatic Hydrocarbons". I thus wonder how much tung oil
it really contains and is my experience with red oak directly applicable to
bubinga?

I have considered BLO and have not thrown it out of consideration. At
least, I would know what I am using.

Jim

It's funny how a finish that darkens one wood, may lighten another. I've used
tung on bluegum and it turned a light orange-y timber into a beautiful rich
glowing purple. I have also used it on a blonde gum and it darkened that less
that the BLO control sample did. Go figure.

Nothing beats experimenting with the actual batch of the timber you are using,
i.m.o.

Since you mention gluing and water based poly in your post also: I recently had
a bad experience when I glued up a knifeblock with an 'improved' pva glue and
finished with waterbased poly: the poly somehow reacted with one of the glue
lines and caused it to swell and bleed under the finish :-( Curiously, the
other glueline was unaffected.

-Peter

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