Originally Posted By: Drew Hause
Could you please elaborate John? I'm sure the humidity is much higher in Mississippi than here in the desert.

Here are the Amazon reviews
http://www.amazon.com/Formbys-300115-Lemon-Treatment-16-Ounce/product-reviews/B0015R7VY0

I use Old English Lemon Oil routinely on our oak antiques, and Pledge Orange Oil for 'washed out' wood. I like Howard Feed-N-Wax (which has Orange Oil) to restore and protect gunstocks, but it will slightly darken the finish.
Maybe I'm fooling myself, but the wood sure looks better, and for a long time.


Furniture inside a house is not subjected to the elements like a gunstock. Sure, lemon oil will bring out the character and beauty of a piece of dry furniture that is made of some nice wood to begin with that has a decent finish on it. But that is all it does. Furniture is not handled like a gunstock either.

Any oil will make a gunstock shine for a few minutes, but does nothing else. Actually, Clenzoil is touted for use on wood, but it does the same thing. This idea of "feeding" wood is nonsense. The best thing to put on a dried out gunstock, other than a refinish, is some form of boiled linseed oil, or a more sophisticated form of it with other polymers added, which will cure and harden in time and protect the wood from moisture and wear.
JR


Last edited by John Roberts; 05/26/14 08:24 PM.
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