Almond Oil For Wood Instruments

Apply oil on a daily basis always polishing the recorder using a cloth or piece of leather dampened with oil.

Almond oil for wood instruments. The traditional oil for woodwind instruments is linseed oil. Almond oil is the best. Beyond that there were various suggestions to use almond oil raw linseed oil and olive oil. Groundnut or peanut oil and sweet almond oil.

The best repair shops in the world and artists trust a simple natural almond oil for their instruments. Tung oil is a plant based oil used as a wood finish. Oil can swell the wood cracking the instrument at the tenons. Without crosslinking the oil is greatly more.

Allow the oil enough time to soak in at least for an hour. The moeck maintenance kit contains almond oil but one can also purchase it at a chemist s or at a drug store. The vitamin e oil keeps the almond oil from going rancid. The oil comes in a glass bottle and i suggest standing this bottle in hot water for a few minutes to warm the oil pour it onto the wood and wipe around with a piece of kitchen paper allow it to soak in for a minute or two then wipe off any excess with clean kitchen paper.

Pure and non toxic with quick drying times. Let cloth used for oiling therefore dry outspread by exposure to air. Wipe it off completely so your recorder doesn t get sticky from oil residue. Don t oil your recorders because the wood is already treated and the oil could damage the wood.

Almost every maker recommends sweet almond oil with vitamin e oil added to it. I used to recommend lemon oil but it seems that standards vary as. This vegetable oil is absorbed by the pores of the wood and forms a film that protects the recorder from moistness. A serpent is a double s shaped instrument made of wood wrapped in leather but blown with a brass mouthpiece this instrument had dried out centuries ago and was little more than a leather shell enclosing a pile of dust.

Nitric acid will do it and can stain the wood at the same time if you add a little metal reddish brown for iron reddish green for copper blue black for silver. Polymerized linseed oil is the best of both worlds. Almond oil is the preferred oil for oiling the bore of wood clarinets oboes piccolos. The cells swell up and the wood expands.

Cyanoacrylate ca superglue will polymerize linseed oil and several other oils that are normally not considered drying oils so you can make almond oil laquer with it. It is clear quick drying and penetrates the grain to enhance and protect the. For keys it is recommendable to use sewing machine or special key oil. Boiled linseed oil is common as a wood finish but contains some potentially hazardous drying compounds.

Oil the exterior to keep your recorder looking pretty. Linseed oil is better because it won t make the recorder sticky. Once the oil has polymerized the rate of water crossing is significantly reduced and the oil is more permanently retained. Cloth soaked with linseed oil can ignite spontaneously.

Other bore oils on the market can contain petroleum distillates and or dyes none of which is necessary nor desired for oiling the wood of your premium instrument.