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Re: almond oil as bore oil

Author: L. Omar Henderson
Date: 2006-03-30 15:04

(Disclaimer - I sell a plant derived bore oil and applicators)
Historically oils such as almond, walnut, apricot, etc. have been used on wooden instruments and there is some justification for using "nut" oils as a wood preservative. I started out going to museums and cathedrals, etc., (because of my international work schedule) and talking with the conservators of wood artifacts to see what products they used, or had been used over the centuries to preserve wooden artifacts. After a while a common thread of ingredients emerged as well as the sources and processing techniques used to produce the components.

Many of the same "named" products available today were produced by different methods and had contaminants or unrefined elements in olden times that are not found today because of our modern processing techniques. Indeed it is some of these removed contaminants which gave the ingredients longevity in old times due to natural antioxidants co-processed with the oils. As it turns out the historical making of wooden instruments impregnated with the oils circumvented the need for added antioxidants and current manufacturing oil impregnation uses oils that are not as subject to oxidation and turning rancid.
L. Omar Henderson

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