Thread: What are you working on?

Poor wild rosewood, has borne all possible treatments: stabilization, impregnation with linseed oil, polished with Renaissance wax, and now with tung oil.

Originally Posted by mihai

We applied 3 layers according to the 24 hour recommendations, And after another 2-3 days I polished it.
As I said, the shine is not spectacular, my goal was to make wood more waterproof and look a little better.

I've never had luck with a high shine from tung oil, either.
But it looks great, just the way it is.
Nicely done.!

Originally Posted by mihai

Poor wild rosewood, has borne all possible treatments: stabilization, impregnation with linseed oil, polished with Renaissance wax, and now with tung oil.

You could try Tru Oil next time, should you want a nice deep shine.
Hard to beat, and extremely durable, easy to work with, dries faster than linseed, or tung oil.

I did not find Tru oil in my country and anyway I confused him with tung oil , and how I found it I bought it.

Very nice looking brush!

I have found Walnut Oil to make a long term finish on the denser woods. There are preparations of Walnut Oil and Beeswax that are great for turned objects and are applied while the item is in the lathe.
~Richard

Originally Posted by outback

I've never had luck with a high shine from tung oil, either.
But it looks great, just the way it is.
Nicely done.!

If you hard burnish it in with wetndri it will be like a mirror at the right angle but front on it will be sorta satiny.

Just a little clean-up on this Marsh Brothers. I wanted to keep it as original as possible. I got a feeling that many years ago someone fixed it up and then the rust got to it. So here it is. About as far as I'll go with it I'm thinking...

Before, w/ rust



After rust removal and a bit of polish...

Still some black spots from the rust but...

centers when closed and not warped or bent. I'm thinking this will hone up nice even with a bit of hone ware. Guess I'll find out tomorrow.

Any idea on the maker of this one? 2/8 with no hone ware. Says England on the tail but nothing on the tang or blade. I'm thinking this would be extremely hard to shave with and hone but I'm going to give it a go at least once. Why not. You can tell by the tang that this was made as a small razor and not cut down. About a quarter hollow.

Originally Posted by Gasman

Any idea on the maker of this one? 2/8 with no hone ware. Says England on the tail but nothing on the tang or blade. I'm thinking this would be extremely hard to shave with and hone but I'm going to give it a go at least once. Why not. You can tell by the tang that this was made as a small razor and not cut down. About a quarter hollow.

Those are called 'STROP EATERS' Also the angles while shaving also change very quickly! Be careful!

Thanks for the warning Roy. I just noticed in the pic it looks as if its got a frown. I swear its got a slight smile. Not straight. Hey, even if I manage to shave one cheek, one pass, I'll call it good. I figure if I own it I got to shave with it. Even if its just a tiny bit. Of course this all depends on if I can set a bevel to start with. Ha.

Then I'll loan it to you Roy so you can show me how its done.