The wax is good till the first time the bowl is used and rinsed out.
Any water will raise the grain, and a scotch brite pad will help get
rid of the fuzzies. It isn't necessary to oil the bowl, but I do
because I like the feel, and they look and feel better for sales
purposes. I prefer Mike Mahoney's Walnut oil, you can look him up on
the internet. His oil will set up eventually, though not over night.
Mineral oil does little. Especially, if the bowl is used for salads,
the oil from the salads works fine, but whatever is eaten out of the
bowl, the oils from the fool will season the bowl. By the way, Mike
doesn't put anything on his personal wood ware.

robo hippy




On Jan 15, 8:10*am, TWW wrote:
A few weeks back I asked the group about tung oil and buffing in cold
climate. *Since it was cold I decided to wait until it warmed up so
buffed an oak bowl with no tung or Danish oil on it and gave it to
someone who loved it. *When I saw her a couple of weeks later she
asked me if she should put mineral oil on it after a while like I had
told her to do with some other bowls.

I was not sure if she should put anything on it but told her I would
ask this group since you guys usually *know more than I do. *My
thought was mineral oil might raise the grain in the wood if it got
through the thin wax coating I put on with the buffing wheel and it
would shine less. Anyone have any experience with caring for buffed
bowls they want to pass along? *Thanks.