Kevin Woolever
11-30-2006, 7:40 PM
I am a new member and just want to say "Hi", and ask if anyone can help me get a good formula. I wacth a woodworker on tv that uses tung oil and the grain leaps off his projects.
I started with some very figured walnut, and wanted to get the same kind of finish that he got. Well, I didn't get it. I used a 1/3 tung oil, 1/3 mineral spirits and a 1/3 clear poly. I got a muddy looking mess after 3 applications. I buffed the project with some clean rags got it so the pattern of the grain and figured showed, but no where near the luster that I would have gotten with the poly or spray lacquer I normally would use to finish one of the my projects. To get a little of that back I topcated with 2 coats of thclear poly.
Can anyone tell me a mix that would have given me the the finish I wanted?
I started with some very figured walnut, and wanted to get the same kind of finish that he got. Well, I didn't get it. I used a 1/3 tung oil, 1/3 mineral spirits and a 1/3 clear poly. I got a muddy looking mess after 3 applications. I buffed the project with some clean rags got it so the pattern of the grain and figured showed, but no where near the luster that I would have gotten with the poly or spray lacquer I normally would use to finish one of the my projects. To get a little of that back I topcated with 2 coats of thclear poly.
Can anyone tell me a mix that would have given me the the finish I wanted?