Klarinet Archive - Posting 000728.txt from 1998/09

From: Felix1297@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 19 Sep 1998 08:15:02 -0000 Issue 504
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:01:52 -0400

In a message dated 98-09-19 04:20:14 EDT, you write:

<< Well maybe - but there are a group of oils such as linseed and almond oil
that are called "drying oils" because they dry out on exposure to air. These
oils are used in paints and inks because they will dry without soaking into
porus surfaces. I don't know what your bore oil is but the commercial
LeBlanc bore oil contains petrolium distillates (read light kerosene) to
give a "drying oil" effect. Your test is inconclusive as stated - try it on
a piece of glass. If you are left with little to no residue then you are
using a drying oil and it's not "soaking in". if you are left with a puddle
then you are correct - the wood is adsorbing the oil. In either case I'm not
sure if oiling is a good thing unless you have a really "dried out" piece of
wood. Perhaps Mr. Kloc or some other expert could give us some idea of how
you tell that a clarinet needs oil since I seem to remember that he did not
say to never oil but only if it is really needed.

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HI,

I am agree with you when you say that you are not sure if oiling is a good
things unless you have a really dried out instruments. Like I already said a
new piece a wood doesn't need oil, when I say new piece a wood I mean from 1
to 6 years. Of course it depend where you are living and it is where I said
that sometime the wood need some oil. If you notice that the inside is dried
out you should put some oil. You have an easy way to check this, take you
instrument and take out the barrel, then look at the tenon part you will see
the thikness of the wood from outside to inside in one time, if the outside is
dry it can be only the fact that some watter staying and the acide you have on
that give a kind of clear brown look, this doesn't need oil it is not dried
out. If the center look clear brown and that when you pass your nail and you
feel that is rought, you should put some oil or have somebody do it. When I
put oil on instrument I use a feather and I just put the top of the feather on
my oil solution and I do one pass. Then I wait for two or three hours to see
if the wood soak the oil, and if the color change. And I do this prosses until
the wood look dark brown and shinny. I never put tones of oil because I don't
want the oil go into the undercuting to not rune the pads and facilitate dirth
when I sawb the intrsument. The oil I use is a solution of Paraphine oil,
almond oil and orange peel essence. We use this at Buffet when we have the
instrument in the vat before we work on it. The orange peel essence is like a
acide reaction to the wood that will soak out the dirth you have on the fiber
and then the oil will take the place. I like it because it is natural and it
is not hurting the wood like some petroleum solution that is to hard ( this is
only my opinion).

Hope this help

Musically Yours

Francois Kloc
Woodwind Product Specialist
Boosey & Hawkes Musical Instruments Inc.

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