Birchwood Casey Tru Oil Stock Finish (3-Ounce)

Have used this on two walnut gunstock and multiple knife handles.With multiple coats and fine sanding you can achieve very nice high gloss finish. Or satin finish with fewer coats.Dries quickly and not too smelly.Highly recommend.Thier gun blue works very well too.

Realmente es fácil de aplicar y se obtiene un buen acabado. En mi caso lo utilice para repintar el cuello de una guitarra eléctrica y me ha gustado mucho como quedo. Por otra parte es bastante rendidor.

古い木製グリップがあったのですが、傷だらけでした。サンダーで削って、表面の傷がすっかり消えました。さて、仕上げをどうしようかと悩んでいたところ、この商品の評判が良かったのでためしてみました。匂いは少し気になる人がいるかもしれません。完全に消えるまでには2週間くらいはかかるかもしれません。時間がかかりますがちゃんと消えます。色は薄めの茶色で、非常にきれいな色合いです。私の好みです。やり方は、脱脂綿に少な目に浸して塗りこみます。そして、布で早めに拭き取ってください。良く拭き取れば木目が見える綺麗な薄めの茶色に仕上がります。重ね塗りはしなくても良いかなと考えています。拭き取らないと濃い目の色になるのと、テカテカになりますが、好みでないので結局ふきとってしまいました。艶有が好みな方はクリアーを吹かれてはいかがでしょうか。

I bought a fountain pen a couple of years ago that was supposed to have come with a gloss finish. It did not. In fact, it did not appear to have any finish on it at all. I saved the pen and thought that I might refinish it someday.Then I came across the Tru-Oil. I had used this stuff clear back in the 1970s on a .22 cal. Wards Western Field rifle. I remembered it having done a pretty good job on the rifle so I tried it again, but this time on the fountain pen.The barrel and cap of the fountain pen are made of California Buckeye Burl. This appears to be a type of precious hardwood that looks a lot like marble. If you get a good enough finish on it, then it definitely looks like marble or maybe even better.One drawback to the wood in the pen is that it does contain some pits and other flaws. Probably for this reason, it took several coats of Tru-Oil to do the job. Multiple coats of Tru-Oil will eventually fill most imperfections in the wood.I used the index finger on my right hand to apply the Tru-Oil. I used fine steel wool between coats. I'm not sure of the coarseness of the steel wool because it just said "finest" on the package in English and then some other things in other languages.The trick to getting a beautiful finish seems to be first to get the wood completely filled and then to apply the top coat evenly. The top coat was very tricky for me and I had to do it over a couple of times to get the finish that I really wanted. I think the trick is to rub the Tru-Oil on very quickly and as thin as possible. You can feel the Tru-Oil quickly getting tacky. It sets up very quickly. Keep your finger moving and use the least amount of finish as possible. With practice, you can level the finish by skimming your finger quickly and lightly over it. But don't try to do this too long when the finish starts to get tacky.The grain of the wood in the pen I finished with Tru-Oil has a translucent 3-dimensional look. Some of the grain looks 1/16" - 1/8" deep. This reminds me of looking at the designs inside glass playing marbles that we had when we were kids. We were good at playing marbles and we had about a gallon of them saved up at one time that we had won in marble games at school during recess and lunch hour. The top coat of Tru-Oil on the pen is extremely high gloss. It's as smooth and bright as glass or even better.I have an Eastman mandolin that has a lacquer-over-spirit-varnish finish on the maple wood back of it. The maple on the back of the mandolin is flamed maple, like a lot of violins and some guitars. The finish on the mandolin has this same 3-dimensional look.I'm waiting to see how well the Tru-Oil finish holds up on the fountain pen. Fingers produce acid and oils and it will be interesting to see how this affects the Tru-Oil. At any rate, the finish looks very good and this is only the second time I've used the Tru-Oil. I think doing a gunstock should be easier than doing a classic fountain pen.If there is anything that could use improvement with the Tru-Oil, it would probably be that it could flow out a little more easily. I like the idea that it dries fast (you are supposed to be able to apply the next coat after 2-3 hours), but I find it a little difficult to flow it out evenly on a surface like this fountain pen. Anyway, the finish on the pen turned out very good, I think. It's interesting to see all the applications that people are using the Tru-Oil for besides gunstocks.

It’s easy to apply and makes the wood stand out!