"Woody" wrote in message
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Does hot oil make a
difference? I've never heard of that. I am tempted to try scraping
rather than sanding, but I doubt they scrape.
In the meanwhile I am trying to convince myself that my finish has a nicer
"wood" look to it; and theirs looks like plastic.



Hot oil flows in better - less viscosity. You can dilute too, but that
carries less solids, and you have to double coat. Bit of a boost in speed
of polymerization, too, I suppose.

Old crockpot or frybaby on low warms the linseed real well if you don't want
to go the double boiler route. Rub with the grain and watch it disappear,
rather than sit there. It does wonderful things to pine, and seems to color
cherry more rapidly than using an oil-based finish. Maybe it's that
"yellowing" drawback to BLO - the one that keeps you from using it where you
want white wood.