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Re: Oiling Bore

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-06-20 17:23

Those who don't experience cracking on non-oiled clarinets are lucky - mazel tov. If the wood is not allowed to soak up oil, it will soak up water. The wood WILL expand and contract with the presence and then lack of presence of water. If you allow the oil to sit in there, there will be less stress on the system. It only makes sense.

Now I am very happy to present my story of personal ignorance.

I have been using a product known as Orange Oil for the past few years, but have not always been happy with the look of the wood after application. Finally I had a chat with Dr. Omar Henderson of "The Doctor's Products" and he stated that he'd never heard of anyone using Orange Oil. A search on the web got me some descriptions of this product being used for "the conditioning of antiques."

Per Dr. Henderson's instructions I stripped the clarinet, and cleaned it with Murphy's oil soap to prepare it for the application of the "Bore Doctor." Low in behold, the instrument looked even MORE like it did after Orange Oil treatments (bare, lighter colored wood). So I think that rather than oiling, I had been slowly cleaning the wood the last few years.

My treatment with the "Bore Doctor" seems to be bringing the richness of the "look" back to the wood (though I will need more time to see how things go).

I have just noticed some hairline cracks above the two top sidekey tone holes (hoping that they will NOT proceed into the tone holes). I think I may have been just a little late getting at some decent bore oil.

On one further note, enclosed in my order of "Bore Doctor" was an announcement of a new product called "Gren-ade" apparently made of actual oil from grenadilla wood. Not much more information is available on this product. I wonder if Dr. Henderson would be able to provide a small review for us.

..................Paul Aviles

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