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 Re: almond oil as bore oil
Author: corks&pads 
Date:   2006-03-30 12:00

There are (at least) two ways of looking at oiling wooden clarinets. Here are the short comments. As noted, there is much more to this discussion in the archives.

One is the regular, roughly annual, maintenance of instruments that have been well cared for since new. The objective of this is to preserve the original condition of the wood as it came from the factory.

The other is the restoration of instruments which have spent many years in the closet (hopefully), or the basement (maybe good...maybe not so good), or the attic (usually not good). The objective here is to try to restore compatible oils to wood with cells that have dried out excessively--without overloading them.

Mineral oil is cheaper than sweet almond or walnut oil, and it probably does as good a job protecting the wood of new instruments for several years. Over the long run, though, I'd clearly favor the latter two.

This is an area where science collides with craft, art, and opinion. It's a balancing act of which oil will look best v. the one that's least acidic v. the one that dries more than the next, etc.

In the case of instruments that are relatively new (say...10 years or less) it's probably safe to say that less is better when it comes to applying oil; that some is better than none; and that any of the above oils are better than none at all.

Past that 10-15 year mark (a totally arbitrary estimate), what kind of oil treatment the wood needs becomes pretty subjective. That's where experience with wood (or good luck) come in.

One of the best bits of lifetime advice that I ever got came to me as a young man from an old cowboy. When I asked which of two types of equipment was better, he replied, "Waaallll ... dif'rent people sez dif'rent thangs." That's how most stuff in life is.

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