Thread: Sealing walnut stock

As above. I mix about 2% of terrabine with thinned boiled linseed oil. Still a slow process. A little each couple of days and well rubbed before next very light application. Not to be a hurried job.

In france there is a product called Sicatif which is used to speed up the drying of the linseed oil.

Also, there is a tree root, dark red in apparence mixed with the boil linseed to give it a red/ dark tin. It is called orcanette.

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

the bloody heathens who have replied - boiled turps - if doing a new stock mix in a little turps to get it to soak in - other wise boiled linseed and hand rub - that has done best English for years - hand rub and rub and polish with more hand rubbing - the more you do the better it will look

I meant boiled linseed not boiled turps

Originally Posted by Friwi

In france there is a product called Sicatif which is used to speed up the drying of the linseed oil.

Also, there is a tree root, dark red in apparence mixed with the boil linseed to give it a red/ dark tin. It is called orcanette.

Think it’s alkanet root. I’ve played with that too. Takes a long time to infuse into the base oil, but does add that nice red tinge to the wood (once you get enough in there)

Originally Posted by Hunter_Nick

Think it’s alkanet root. I’ve played with that too. Takes a long time to infuse into the base oil, but does add that nice red tinge to the wood (once you get enough in there)

Yup I've read about that stuff. It's meant to be in a few of the old English recipes but could be a bit of faffing around
Here are a couple I've found but yet to try

Thanks team some excellent suggestions there. I have decided to keep it simple and have sourced some tru-oil. I’ll post pics when the whole thing is done.

Look up the truoil armourall recipe
You might be surprised

Truoil will be all good, I HIGHLY recommend thinning with lacquer thinner for the sealing coats. Help it get in deep.

And de-whisker very well, or first time you take it out in the rain it will turn into a furry mess. Believe me…

Nimrods' recipe

0ne part boiled linseed oil.
One part turps
One part Cabots polyurethane.

Turps thins it out. Soaks in rapidly then evaporates leaving linseed poil and polyurethane impregnated in wood.

This recipe is taonga so ask RK permission to use it.