penofin oil finish?

[wisardd1]

Anyone used this stuff? Made from brazillian rosewood oil? Sounds interesting

www.penofin.com/company.shtml

[Leo Voisine]

My sister uses that as a preservative on her outside decks. I have not really paid any attention to how well it works.

[Doug B]

Looks interesting. I wonder if anyone would be willing to try it out for a pen finish? Any volunteers?

[wisardd1]

Mar 22, 2010 22:02:23 GMT -6 Doug B said:

Looks interesting. I wonder if anyone would be willing to try it out for a pen finish? Any volunteers?

I wil try it on something. I don't know much about Rosewood oil. It sounds like that is what they are using instead of Tung Oil or BLO.

[Doug B]

I was hoping you would volunteer Wizard! I does sound interesting.

[Mark]

I've used it on the Ipe railings of my outside deck. It does not seem to be a "hardening" type oil, so I doubt that it would work very well for turnings. It seems to be more like a penetrating oil, that soaks into the wood providing primarily water repellancy, and a replacement for the woods lost natural "moisture" content. The viscosity of it is extremely low - more like DNA than like BLO.

To really keep the deck railings "nice", it requires regular - like twice yearly re-applications - at least here in the Pacific Northwest. And it's on the high side of cost per sq ft of coverage at that. I have in no way managed to keep the railings "nice" cause I've got other things I 'd rather be doin' than oilin' them. It's kinda like the proud skipper of a wooden sailboat, trying to keep all of the wood in good shape. Not a bad goal, but you get only so many hours a day to do stuff ......

Mark