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Originally Posted by Rifleman1776
Why did you cut with mineral oil?
I did a walnut stock with straight pure tung oil.
About 35 years later it still looks great.
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I got the Tung Oil from 'The Real Milk Paint Company' and Dewayne Siever told me to cut it 1:1 with mineral
spirits (not oil), so that it would soak deeper into the wood. He said that it also cuts down on the drying time by 50%. He said that what would normally take 4 or 5 days to dry with pure tung oil would take 3 days to dry with the 1:1 ratio.
I was just following his advice.