Real tung oil. While its true it takes tung oil a little longer to dry than lesser oils and youll need to put in a little more effort to achieve the perfect finish all that time on the front end means a long lasting more brilliant result youll enjoy for years to come. Blo to compare the two finishes vaughn macmillan applied boiled linseed oil to the left half and tung oil to the right half of this platter. Tung oil never dries and is a real pain to work with. Photo by vaughn macmillan myth 4.
When applied to a raw surface the oil hardens to protect and add luster to the wood. Product description enhance the character of wood with our great water resistant finish. Pure tung oil forms a tough all natural oil finish that seals out water and is completely unaffected by alcohol or acetone. Most other oils can be anything from a thinned down varnish to polymerized tung and most have petroleum distillates added.
Tutorial on how to use 100 pure tung oil wood finish the right way. Tung oil takes long to dry but it does dry. After much research for what the best product would be to do this i decided to use real milk paint pure tung oil. After sanding and cleaning the wood surface to remove any previous finish spread the oil along the grain pattern using a clean lint free rag.
See list of tung oils that are not 100 pure tung oil below. The tung oil offered by real milk paint is a 100 pure oil meaning it comes without any heavy metals additives or distillates. Thats actually about 1100sq when i add up all the coats very economical as well. Not only did it have the best price for the job it is food safe with low odor upon applicationthere are a lot of products that say pure tung oil but when you look closer at the list of ingredients it also includes others such as varnish or solvents.
So far i have used 2 gallons of tung oil and 1 gallon of turpentine covering approx. This finish is made from 100 pure tung oil making it one of the safest and highest quality oil finishes available. Tung oil is a type of natural drying oil commonly used as a finish in woodworking projects.