In a kitchen setting, I would highly advise using a more protective varnish.
These cabinets tend to be abused and wiped down more than any other in your
house.

That said, a common recipe for a finish is to mix equal parts of Boiled
Linseed oil, Tung Oil, and Varnish.

Leon wrote:
In a kitchen setting, I would highly advise using a more protective varnish.
These cabinets tend to be abused and wiped down more than any other in your
house.

That said, a common recipe for a finish is to mix equal parts of Boiled
Linseed oil, Tung Oil, and Varnish.


You sure . . .? I thought it was equal parts of either turpentine or
mineral spirits, oil (either linseed or tung), and varnish?

Rick

I am sure. Many recipes are common.


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Leon wrote:
In a kitchen setting, I would highly advise using a more protective
varnish.
These cabinets tend to be abused and wiped down more than any other in
your
house.

That said, a common recipe for a finish is to mix equal parts of Boiled
Linseed oil, Tung Oil, and Varnish.


You sure . . .? I thought it was equal parts of either turpentine or
mineral spirits, oil (either linseed or tung), and varnish?

Rick

All of the above. Your mixture is often the ingredients in "Danish" oil and
its variants. The thinner is added for ease of application. Another common
recipe is what Leon said ... BLO/Tung/Poly(varnish) ... mixed by many a
woodworker, and sold commercially as "Sam Maloof" finish, among others,
because it is what he purportedly uses on his rocking chairs.

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Leon wrote:
In a kitchen setting, I would highly advise using a more protective
varnish.
These cabinets tend to be abused and wiped down more than any other in
your
house.

That said, a common recipe for a finish is to mix equal parts of Boiled
Linseed oil, Tung Oil, and Varnish.


You sure . . .? I thought it was equal parts of either turpentine or
mineral spirits, oil (either linseed or tung), and varnish?

Trent, Rick is right on the turps/oil/varnish mixture. You definitely want to use a more
protective finish than just oil. You might also look at the FWW article from last year
about rubbing in thinned spar varnish.

It is oil, thinner, varnish. The results are basically a Danish oil. Very
high oil to resin content. While the 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 formula is common you can
vary the properties by varying the ratio's.

The thinner helps in penetration of the oil and the varnish resins provide a
bit more protection then oil alone.

It makes little sense to mix three oils, varnish being a high ratio resin to
tung oil mix to start with, since you gain little and don't get the
penetration the above will give you.

But, like chicken soup it can't hurt and if it gives you the warm and
fuzzies, what the hell.


--
Mike G.
Heirloom Woods
www.heirloom-woods.net
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Leon wrote:
In a kitchen setting, I would highly advise using a more protective
varnish.
These cabinets tend to be abused and wiped down more than any other in
your
house.

That said, a common recipe for a finish is to mix equal parts of Boiled
Linseed oil, Tung Oil, and Varnish.


You sure . . .? I thought it was equal parts of either turpentine or
mineral spirits, oil (either linseed or tung), and varnish?

Rick

a common recipe for a finish is to mix equal parts of Boiled Linseed oil,
Tung Oil, and Varnish.

These home brew finishes are never as good performance wise as a quality
commercial product. Tung oil and linseed oil finishes cure by reacting with
oxygen in the air IIRC, and thus poymerizing. By themselves they will take
forever to cure decently, so adding varnish actually adds more of an oil, but
also a catalyst like cobalt napthenate to kick off the cure.
Some people like sticky kitchen cabinets, so it's a matter of taste if you'd
rather brew your own.
As in many things, newer technology displaces the old only because its better.
HTH

Joe