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Re: almond oil as bore oil

Author: L. Omar Henderson
Date: 2006-03-31 22:20

(Disclaimer - I sell a wood cleaner for instruments)
In order to remove randid oil one could use a wood cleaner designed for wooden instruments or a lot of people - according to posts - use Murphy's Oils soap designed for hardwood floors. The trick is not to leech out too much oil out of the wood in the cleaning process and to replace oil after cleaning thoroughly. Another benefit of cleaning is to remove the gunk formed when oil in the wood combines with dust and air pollutants and clogs the pores of the wood and does not allow it to "breathe" and adequately exchange moisture.

Ben, olive oil - especially extra virgin - has a lot of natural antioxidants and is less processed than almond oil. Olive oil has been used for years to keep wooden kitchen utensils from drying out and cracking. Almond oil is especially prone to autoxidize and turn rancid and even addition of Vitamin E (a poor plant oil antioxidant anyway) often does not help. Autoxidation in wood does proceed at a slower rate than just oil in a bottle or exposed to a lot of air probabably because it is not exposed to as much oxygen as in the former situations. The natural antioxidants in Grenadilla do protect its own form of oil pretty well. Almond oil in conjunction with other oils containing natural antioxidants and the addition of proper antioxidants can remain stable for long periods of time - my own experimentation.
L. Omar Henderson

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