
Lacquer over boiled linseed oil. I made myself a cajon drum and maked it out of pine just a test piece the real final cajon woulb be out of some other and hard wood and just wanted to finish it with many coats of linseed oil but after that i want to put some coats of lacquer for the piece to resist some abuse and have a glossy finish. It seems that would be the best of both worlds. How to varnish wood with linseed oil sailing wisdom rigging. Ive seen that you can put down a coat of oil and then lacquer over it.
Linseed oil can be utilized as a wood furniture finish. Yes sometimes i will apply lacquer over a hand rubbed oil finish in order to get the depth and beauty that the slow drying oilvarnish blend brings out while gaining. I have a 50 year old chest that still looks like new. I have used boiled linseed oil many times before with a wax on top of it.
Once cured the oil adds a nice glow and protects the wood from sun and water damage. For high traffic areas does it make any sense in spraying a protective lacquer finish after applying the linseed and tung oil finish. Id now like to try to use lacquer. Some examples of drying oils include tung oil linseed oil and walnut oil.
I cant remember if ive ever used lacquer over oil but as said above it will probably work fine if the oil is cured. I did a sample with linseed oil another with danish oil linseed oil and varnish mix and then another sample with oil topcoated with lacquer. Here are some affiliate links to finishes i recommend if you click and buy i make a few pennies from amazon. Just like a polyurethane.
Years ago in school we oiled cedar chests to bring out the grain then we used lacquer over it. Varnish stain oil wax lacquer polyurethane. Question from a student. You can easily create your own high quality wood conditioner by mixing 40 of boiled linseed oil with 60 of mineral turpentine.
So in actuality they cure rather than dry. A drying oil is one that will harden to form a solid film after exposure to the air over time. What are the techniques in doing this. In fact you can apply the shellac right after the oil this is done all the time in turning.
How to apply linseed oil. I would think anything you can use over oil based stain would work for sure. How to use boiled linseed oil and paste wax for a wood finish blo. We used johnsons paste wax on the lacquer and to this day it is a great finish.
Hi ive made some research on it and it seems to be ok but just wanted to be sure. He loved the oil topcoated with lacquer. The oil hardens through a chemical reaction called cross linking or polymerization by intaking oxygen.