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Thanks Steve, your Christmas present should arrive in a few days!!!
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I don't remember who mentioned it in this thread, but I've heard/read several times that the old driers are no longer available and that may explain why linseed oil based finishes were more useful 'back in the day'. Am I wrong in thinking that the drier only really affects the time between coats? Also, for anyone who is looking for a good old lead-laden Japan drier, this company sells it online. Not sure what I think about using a 10% lead additive in a hand applied finish. https://www.naturalpigments.com/genuine-japan-drier-2-fl-oz.html
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What I see are two forearms that look refinished... Ps...l like the free advertisement you're running in your signature line I guess you got the ok from Stevie.
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Am I wrong in thinking that the drier only really affects the time between coats?
I was under the impression that the drier helped harden the finish.
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Yesterday evening, I went back to the store that had Watco Danish Oil for $3.99 a one pint can, and I bought 16 more pints. Of course, I planned to use it for other things besides gun stock finishing. Today, I'm having second thoughts... I should go back and buy all they have. And since they have several other stores within an hour of me, I should go and buy up all those stores have too. Then I could put it in little 2 ounce bottles and sell it here for $29.95 a bottle by calling it Genuine Winchester Custom Shop Hand Rubbing Stock Oil. And I could sleep well knowing that I was selling you guys a better stock finish than a linseed/sunflower oil concoction.  Best advise yet.
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Jim, finish driers are often formulated in combination because individual drier chemicals are classified as primary (top) driers, or through driers.
Using a primary or top drier alone could result in a finish that feels hard and dry on the surface, but is still soft just below the surface. This could result in damage, or create problems if you thought a stock was dry and hard enough for checkering. Using only a through drier chemical, or using too much drier additive can cause a brittle finish.
The calculations of how much of each drier chemical to use for a given batch of finish are somewhat critical and they can get fairly complex when several drier chemicals are used. That's a reason that it may not make a lot of sense to mix your own homebrew, unless you are working from a known good formula, when the manufacturers have gone through the trouble to correctly work this all out for us.
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Thanks Mark! Mighty nice of you.
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Woodreax, Thanks for the link. Could be some useful stuff there.
I'm not a Dr or a chemist. I don't know the hows and whys of what makes TL work as easy as it does.
I have a lot of folks on my ignor list so I may have missed some of the previous discussions
Steve, your welcome. Are you going to the Guild show this year?
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Why don't you two freeloading bOzos call each other on the telephone and save us the nonsense ?
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No guild show for me this year. I have a hard time convincing myself to go to gunshows. Maybe next year, I have some projects coming along that might be fun to show next year.
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