Question on Homebuilt Waster

[Jim Reed]

I built a waster last weekend using the ARMA Ogden plans. I'm really happy with the way it turned out, although the crossguard seems a bit wide. I'm going to work on a way to make that thinner on the next one.

My question is with the finishing though. I used the boiled linseed oil/mineral spirits mix and put three coats on with a few hours between each. That's been 36 hours ago and the wood doesn't seem quite dry yet. It looks slightly shiny and feels a bit damp/oily to the touch, although not so much that your finger comes away wet.

I'm wondering if anyone else has built one of these and had a similar problem or if I did something wrong. Will it just take more time to dry out, or did I miss something? Thanks for the help.

[Brian Hunt]

Wipe off the excess oil with a rag that you intend to throw away (spontaneous combustion because of an oily rag sucks) then let it dry and rebuff it with the same rag and it should be dry and no longer sticky, oily or tacky.

hope that helps.

Brian Hunt
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P.S. I use tung oil on my wasters, all you are looking for is a seal for the surface of the wood, only you are using a finishing oil for durability as opposed to polyurathene.

[JeffGentry]

I built a waster last weekend using the ARMA Ogden plans. I'm really happy with the way it turned out, although the crossguard seems a bit wide. I'm going to work on a way to make that thinner on the next one.

My question is with the finishing though. I used the boiled linseed oil/mineral spirits mix and put three coats on with a few hours between each. That's been 36 hours ago and the wood doesn't seem quite dry yet. It looks slightly shiny and feels a bit damp/oily to the touch, although not so much that your finger comes away wet.

I'm wondering if anyone else has built one of these and had a similar problem or if I did something wrong. Will it just take more time to dry out, or did I miss something? Thanks for the help.

You might even try putting a little more mineral spirit's in the mix next time, I had the same type of problem my first time i used the linseed oil/mineral spirit mix, Linseed oil is not a real common thing anymore to finish.

Jeff

[Matthew_Anderson]

I built a waster last weekend using the ARMA Ogden plans. I'm really happy with the way it turned out, although the crossguard seems a bit wide. I'm going to work on a way to make that thinner on the next one.

My question is with the finishing though. I used the boiled linseed oil/mineral spirits mix and put three coats on with a few hours between each. That's been 36 hours ago and the wood doesn't seem quite dry yet. It looks slightly shiny and feels a bit damp/oily to the touch, although not so much that your finger comes away wet.

I'm wondering if anyone else has built one of these and had a similar problem or if I did something wrong. Will it just take more time to dry out, or did I miss something? Thanks for the help.

You might even try putting a little more mineral spirit's in the mix next time, I had the same type of problem my first time i used the linseed oil/mineral spirit mix, Linseed oil is not a real common thing anymore to finish.

Jeff

I just use straight boiled linseed oil right from the can. Soaks in real quick, usually nice and dry and ready to use by the next day.

[Jim Reed]

Thanks guys. I buffed it up pretty good with the dry rag, let it sit another day and gave it another sanding with fine grain sandpaper and it seemed to take care of it.

I'm going to try my hand at another one this weekend, maybe an arming sword. I think I'll experiment on some scrap wood with different mixes of oil/spirits, and even straight oil.

[Brian Hunt]

Another thing you can use to buff it is very fine steel wool.

Brian Hunt
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http://www.paulushectormair.com