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Stabilizing w/ Tung Oil

Zach LaPerriere

Zach LaPerriere

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I have a good turning friend in town who is semi-professional. He thrives on stabilizing wood with epoxy, superglue, and cactus juice.

He mentioned stabilizing with tung oil and that he'd read about it somewhere online. Has anyone tried it? In particular, I'd love to hear about stabilizing soft spalted wood. It seems like stabilizing with tung oil might take a L-O-N-G time...but I'm intrigued.

Thanks in advance!
 
What kind of tung oil? Real tung oil, varnish sold as tung oil, or polyermized tung oil. Any oil on spalted wood dramatically changes the color, often makes it look very muddy. No idea how you get the tung oil to any real depth in the wood. Raw tung oil never really dries. Just can't see it being of any value.
 
This is sort of related
A long time ago there was an article I read somewhere about using watco on wet hollow forms.
Get it really wet and put it in a plastic bag.

Supposedly over time (days weeks ???) the watco would pentertate the wood because it doesn’t dry in the plastic bag.

Then you take it on and wipe all the excess off let it dry a few days then apply more finish
 
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