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Offline Blaflair2

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Finish?
« on: September 15, 2013, 03:10:45 pm »
How many coats of oil should I put on. Thinking teal or tung oil. Then wanted to put a spray urethane on. Will that go over the oil?
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Offline bushboy

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Re: Finish?
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2013, 03:28:30 pm »
What type of wood is it?
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Offline Blaflair2

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Re: Finish?
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2013, 03:40:31 pm »
Osage
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Offline Blaflair2

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« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2013, 03:42:50 pm »
Also I don't out anything on before I shoot it in?
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Offline wood_bandit99

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Re: Finish?
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2013, 03:49:03 pm »
Tung oil I would say at least 5 coats. But I constantly rub in oil. Every month I put on two coats to make them completely water proof.
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Offline Bryce

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Re: Finish?
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2013, 04:09:10 pm »
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Offline Blaflair2

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Re: Finish?
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2013, 04:15:47 pm »
Will the urethane go over the tung oil ?
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Offline lostarrow

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Re: Finish?
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2013, 04:29:39 pm »
Test on scrap first. The poly won't  likely stick well in the long run over the oil. Three coats would be plenty for teak oil.  First soaks in , second hits the spots that soaked in more or got a thinner coat first time around, third evens everything out . Couple more if you're not convinced , but anymore and you are trying to build up a finish with a penetrating oil. Save the million coat finish for finishes that build up to give it depth, like poly or shelac. touch up as required.
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Finish?
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2013, 04:55:29 pm »
I've added tru oil over tung oil. The tung oil was real tung oil, not the stuff from lowes. I waited 2 weeks, maybe a month, before doing the tru oil. The tung oil was just one coat though.
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Offline Gordon

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Re: Finish?
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2013, 08:26:04 pm »
You can spray urethane on over tung oil, but you better make sure that the tung oil has completely dried or the urethane finish will develop cracks.
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Offline Blaflair2

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Re: Finish?
« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2013, 08:41:59 pm »
So I can just finish it with tung oil? And it'd be fine? Any advantages of tru oil
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Offline dbb

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Re: Finish?
« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2013, 08:41:37 am »
Yes you can finish it with tungoil.
It will just take a lot longer to do it.
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Finish?
« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2013, 09:13:32 am »
I use real Tung oil on most of my bows. I start with a base coat of shellac just to liven up the grain. Then I wipe on 4-6 coats of real Tung oil. Then after a week or so I wipe 2-4 coats of paste wax over it, however you can skip the wax if you want to. I like the cheap insurance of adding wax.
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« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2013, 09:16:42 am »
One more thing. If you choose a sunny, dry day to apply the tung oil, you can do at least 3 coats in a day by leaving it in the sunny, warm breeze. Ive done it many, many times. However, in a normal weather situation its one coat every 20-24 hours.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Finish?
« Reply #14 on: September 19, 2013, 09:50:33 am »
Osage is pretty oily so why add more oil to the finish?   Just spray a few coats of poly and 0000steel wool rub down between coats.
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