Can anyone recommend the best brand of wax or oil based material in the UK for finishing new softwood.?
Question:This is for use indoors and I want to avoid having to sand between coats and other tiresome stuff. It also needs to incorporate a colour.
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Danish oil is good, I use it a lot on wood,old and new, but I'm not sure you can get it in colours. The natural/neutral danish oil leaves a honey tone, darker the more coats you apply, but bear in mind the wood will likely darken with age anyway. I also use Briwax in different colours, from clear to dark. The colouring though isn't anything like you'd get with a painted on coloured varnish or stain, although this is better in that the result is the wood has a tone to it, not a heavy opaque colouring, and a lovely soft sheen and feel..
Danish oil is excellent for this. Jewsons sell it. You may get a similar product cheaper elsewhere.
Brand names ? Try Liberon or Briwax, both excellent product lines. I would say avoid shop own-brand makes, the real stuff is cheap enough not to worry.
Seal it fist with sanding sealer a easy sand, and finish off with Bri wax a quick great job, colours available.
I have cable TV and I watch diy programmes a lot. I got this one from an american show. Mix 3 parts boiled linseed oil with 1 part white spirit/turps. Rag the solution on to the raw wood, repeat every other day until you like the color. Polish the surface with steel-wool 000grade and wipe off. THATS IT
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