The best product is made for fine firniture and stocks "GB LINSPEED OIL" boiled linseed oil highly filtered. Others probably used regular lineseed oil (pastey stuff). Raw linseed oil is made for paint with pigment in the paint, so clear is never a possibility. It is worthless for fine wood stocks, not clear enough. I tried using non-boiled or raw linseed oil in my younger cheaper days, I could buy it by the gallon. The only negative is it is time consuming. I've seen none of the problems other have discussed. I've finished maybe 25 rifles with boiled linseed oil, excellent finish for better grade wood in my opinion.
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If you are interested I can later explain how to safely boil linseed oil, but the process is involved and in my opinion not worth the effort unless you have the time and plan to oil a fair number of stocks. Your stock will darken somewhat after a few weeks but not as much as when you had used too much oil. Only then should you repeat the re-oiling and re-rubbing process until the sheen remains. If you produce some shine leave it for another day and repeat this rubbing until the stock appears dull again. One day later check the stock and rub it completely and vigorously with a soft towel type rag until you can see some shine. There must be nothing left, the stock must appear as if you did not oil it at all. Immediately you have done the whole stock use a clean soft cotton rag to wipe the stock completely dry of any oil that may be seen shining on the surface. By the way, the stock must have been perfectly sanded very smooth beforehand and any old sealing removed completely. Be careful to not use too much oil where the wood is thin - like next to the barrel channel. Apply the merest minimum (too little is good and anything more than too little is too much) with your fingers and immediately rub it into the wood over as wide a section as it can until you feel it has disappeared - that is how little you should use. Did I say very sparingly? Use it very sparingly. So - buy raw linseed oil and use it very very sparingly. One can in fact boil it yourself if you take very careful precautions to not have it explode and burn your house down. In my opinion based on some experience I have with hand rubbing rifle stocks with oil I have more trust in raw linseed oil. It is a very good wood preservative and the best way to use it is to have stocks totally submerged in the oil with absolutely no exposure to the atmosphere.More about this later if you are interested.ĥ. Long after application it keeps on darkening the wood until you can barely see the pattern and grain.Ĥ. Linseed oil is in a sense the same as WD-40 in that it is volatile, vaporises fast and then leaves a resin-like residue on the wood which can only be removed chemically.ģ. but certainly not boiled as it properly should be done if you want pure, boiled linseed oil.Ģ.
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The so called "boiled linseed oil" you can buy in USA and Canada is not boiled at all and it is not pure linseed oil - there are additives.
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SaskTh, a few aspects of linseed oil need to be accepted.