Lacquer over boiled linseed oil. You can easily create your own high quality wood conditioner by mixing 40 of boiled linseed oil with 60 of mineral turpentine. I cant remember if ive ever used lacquer over oil but as said above it will probably work fine if the oil is cured. Just like a polyurethane. Yes sometimes i will apply lacquer over a hand rubbed oil finish in order to get the depth and beauty that the slow drying oilvarnish blend brings out while gaining.
I would think anything you can use over oil based stain would work for sure. Here are some affiliate links to finishes i recommend if you click and buy i make a few pennies from amazon. The oil did a very nice job of highlighting the shimmer in the wood as well as its natural color and the lacquer acts like a lense that gives the wood a very attractive look of depth. Some examples of drying oils include tung oil linseed oil and walnut oil.
How to varnish wood with linseed oil sailing wisdom rigging. We used johnsons paste wax on the lacquer and to this day it is a great finish. I did a sample with linseed oil another with danish oil linseed oil and varnish mix and then another sample with oil topcoated with lacquer. In this video i cover stain dye oil varnish shellac polyurethane wax and lacquer.
I have used boiled linseed oil many times before with a wax on top of it. Hi ive made some research on it and it seems to be ok but just wanted to be sure. How to use boiled linseed oil and paste wax for a wood finish blo. How to apply linseed oil.
The oil hardens through a chemical reaction called cross linking or polymerization by intaking oxygen. What are the techniques in doing this. Years ago in school we oiled cedar chests to bring out the grain then we used lacquer over it. What are the effects to the wood color change hardness etc.
For high traffic areas does it make any sense in spraying a protective lacquer finish after applying the linseed and tung oil finish. Id now like to try to use lacquer. Ive seen that you can put down a coat of oil and then lacquer over it. Shellac coexists with blo very well and you dont need to worry about the oil being cured before applying the shellac.
So in actuality they cure rather than dry. It seems that would be the best of both worlds. Question from a student. I have a 50 year old chest that still looks like new.
In fact you can apply the shellac right after the oil this is done all the time in turning. I made myself a cajon drum and maked it out of pine just a test piece the real final cajon woulb be out of some other and hard wood and just wanted to finish it with many coats of linseed oil but after that i want to put some coats of lacquer for the piece to resist some abuse and have a glossy finish. Varnish stain oil wax lacquer polyurethane.