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Re: Oiling

Author: The Doctor ★2017
Date: 2016-02-29 18:23

Disclaimer - I make a plant oil based bore oil and reclaim natural Grenadilla oil for sale.
It is amazing to me that in today's world and being surrounded by so much scientific progress that many disproven old wife's tales still persist in the community.

To oil or not oil is a personal choice. Scientific evidence however proves that there are some mixtures of plant oils that will penetrate Grenadilla wood the thickness of a clarinet body. It is also a fact that the oil in Grenadilla wood buffers the gain or loss of moisture from the wood. Moisture and oil can be lost from Grenadilla wood under drying conditions and this will change the overall shape of the wood as Naylor has shown. Since parts of your clarinet come from different trees the wood will gain or lose moisture and oil at different rates in each piece due to tree to tree differences.

Boring large holes close together in a piece of wood invites cracks to form and these can come from either internal stresses in the wood or external forces exerted by mechanical force, heat and cold, moisture imbalances, and perhaps a myriad of things that we cannot understand.

There are at least 300 technicians world-wide that are customers that use my oils and probably thousands that use some form of bore oil in their work on instruments. Good bore oils will not turn rancid and are fine left on wood in storage for years.

This will not sway groups one way or another but your technician should be your guide but please just do not repeat debunked stories and unscientific approaches.

L. Omar Henderson
www.doctorsprod.com

P.S. Hans Moenig just used the wrong oil

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