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Offline Hrothgar

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Tung Oil
« on: January 03, 2013, 03:22:35 pm »
Does anyone have any experience using tung oil over magic marker? I'm wanting to add some animal designs onto a elm belly and thought the markers might be neater than acrylic paint.
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Offline autologus

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Re: Tung Oil
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2013, 03:41:10 pm »
Test it and see, Tung Oil is not that expensive.  But hopefully someone has experience with this and would save you some time and trouble.

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Offline jeffhalfrack

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Re: Tung Oil
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2013, 04:45:23 pm »
 tru-oil is a type of tung that will erase a sharpe,,,I have used  waterlox tung  and that  messed it up  to  JeffW

Offline Hrothgar

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Re: Tung Oil
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2013, 05:49:28 pm »
Thanks for the info; guess I'll have to paint carefully.
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Re: Tung Oil
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2013, 05:54:16 pm »
Depends if it's pure Tung oil or a Tung oil finish.  Tung oil finishes have solvents that will smear most markers, except for alcohol base markers
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