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Originally Posted by Worth1
Wood is never completely dry and shrinks and swells as the weather permits.
Some woods are more prone to this than others.
You can take a round dowel made out of red oak and blow smoke through it.
Even with a cheap modern finish on it it will get moisture in it.
The only way around this is to use turpentine mixed with a good oil like pure tung oil and soak the wood till it wont take anymore.
Then you start putting on pure oil.
I have put on as many as 100 coats of oil on my gun stocks doing this.
Oil sanding and mudding along the way to seal the grain.
Today's products are a fake of what the read deal is.
Worth
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White oak is a much denser oak...keeps the wine in the barrel.
Plastic furniture is really killing off the use of classic quality wooden stocks. Stamped components don't cut it either. It used to be custom engraving was the mark of pride...now they can't even put stamped letters and numbers on straight
