Klarinet Archive - Posting 000092.txt from 1999/02

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bore Oil
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 08:18:50 -0500

A copy of an article by Ted Planas, "OILING THE WOOD", which appeared in
the Feb 1983 edition of "Clarinet and Saxophone", just appeared in the
newsgroup alt.music.clarinet . An interesting excerpt:

"The heavier woods do absorb moisture, but more slowly. But the amount
of oil
they absorb is negligible, especially Blackwood, even if it is bone dry.
Under a pressure of several atmospheres over a period of 4 days, dry
blackwood (5 years seasoned, and oven dried as well) was penetrated by
warm
linseed oil less than 0.02 mm into the end grain. This test I supervised
myself, having availed myself of the use of a very robust pressure
vessel at
an engineering works. After the period of pressure I sectioned the wood
to
find out the results.
I have also noted when working on the bodies of instruments old and new,
how
little is the penetration of stain, oil, and other chemicals. Even the
lightest of cuts on the surface reveals clear wood! The only liquid that
penetrates blackwood is water, but of course that is how the tree lived,
with water carrying all the nutrients through the woody trunk, roots and
branches."

The article does discuss why boxwood benefits from oiling, but why the
heavier woods don't.

Interesting article. I can't copy the whole thing due to copyright
restrictions, but it should show up on DejaNews in a couple of days
(Title: Re: Help - How to prevent wood clarinet from splitting ? From:
Trevor Barnes) in alt.music.clarinet . It's not there this morning.

Just more fuel for the fire :^)
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