On Nov 19, 3:17 pm, "joe" wrote:
"Empedocles" wrote in message

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On Nov 18, 10:17 pm, Empedocles wrote:
I have a new teak dining table, well finished, & ready to go. I want
to protect the surface from spills, etc. I thought to buy teak oil,
but reading posts elsewhere, it doesn't do much to give the kind of
protection I want. There is a combination tung/teak oil product & I
wonder about using that.

What I want is a product I can wipe on with a rag & wipe off the
excess, but which will still give me the protection. I don't want to
sand/steel wool between coats. I just want one application to
initially seal the porous wood. This is asking a lot.

Here are some choices I've run across & I'd like someone's opinion/
experience with. I'd really like it if I can find the product in my
local Ace Hardware, Home Depot, etc.:

Oil/Varnish mixtures like Behr Scandinavian Tung Oil Finish, Minwax
Tung Oil Finish, Watco Danish Oil, etc.

Thinnned or Wiping Varnishes like Minway (Minwax?) Wiping Varnish,
Watco Wiping Varnish, Formby's Tung Oil Finish, etc.

I've also thought of a polyurethane satin, as I don't want a sheen,
but polyurethane application is with a brush, producing bubble
problems & I don't want to deal with that.

I've thought of Thompson's Water Seal, but that may leave an
unpleasant odor.

Would appreciate any opinions/experiences. I'm a novice.

Thanks to all for responding. You have been helpful.

I contacted the seller of my teak table, who said to use teak oil from
a Danish supplier. The only way I could get that oil would require a
trip from MT to the seller in Seattle, so I contacted a Danish company
that supplies that oil & ordered a couple of bottles (the minimum).

The seller said that only a light app of lacquer is applied by the
manufacturer, and that no harm would be done in applying the oil.

Which is why you never trust the seller to know anything more than the
price.
Probably heard of teak oil at some point and figured it must be what you
have to use on teak furniture.
"no harm would be done" is not the same as the doing the right thing, or
even doing things right. As DadiOh posted, if it's got a lacquer finish
(even a thin one), you don't want to put oil over it.

Just a lot of salesman double talk.

Take DadiOh's advice and don't mess with it.

jc

Thanks, guys, altho I'm out $40 for two bottles of teak oil I'll never
use. I imagine this seller has suckered in a lot of people like me.
Pretty good sideline. By the way, this seller is not a fly-by-night,
been in the Seattle area many yrs., specializing in Danish modern.
Adds to its credibility. Teak is such a beautiful, tough, durable
wood. Ran across it in owning a couple of sailboats. My furniture now
is teak. Some of it is teak veneer, but that's ok. A small solid teak
dining table runs over $3,500.