Bye bye BLO....

[GattaFish]

Joe... When I did my testing on tung oil a couple years ago I found pretty much the same results, the harder the wood the better the penetration,,,,, I also found that I could get tung oil to literally penetrate ALL the way through a large dia. birch Darter... I learned some cool stuff during that testing phase,,,, I also enjoyed cutting the test blanks in half to see the results,,,,,

The tung oil I use is not pure but it seems to work pretty well and a gallon is fairly reasonable although the price has doubled in the last two years,,,,,,,

I do agree on the hard woods getting slightly harder with the tung oil,,, on WRC I found that my best results were achieved with a good penetrating epoxy applied directly to a heated blank,,,,,also the tighter the grain on the WRC the better results I had....

Good luck on your new sealer and I cant wait to hear about your findings,,,,

[Charleston]

If cure (dry time) is not a problem stay with a proven method. I still think BLO/MS beats most.

[go4broke44]

I've been using a method employed by a down-east old salt wooden boat builder.

50/50 mix zinsser shellac and denat'd alcohol. I know there are some who don't like shellac for these applications, but if it worked on his wooden boats for years, its good enough for me (works perfect from my tests so far too)