Tung or tru...

poopot

... oil.

whats the difference peeps?

appart from I have to order tru oil online and I can get Tung oil from screwfix 5 minutes from my house.

Roland

All these oils have different percentages of oil and lacquer, and in some cases wax. Try Osmo 2032 semi satin wood finish. You can get that from Screwfix too, and it won’t colour as much as Tru-Oil (unless you add pigment of course).

Zoolooter

Pure Tung takes forever to dry, mucho patience required.

Rabs

This is a good little vid that goes in too the differences... I think one of the main differences is that with Tru Oil is better for building up the coats to get a shiny finish.

Also with Tru Oil theres a trick I use to make it thinner which makes it go on smoother and dry quicker.. Which is basically to add a tiny bit of white spirits to it.. I did a short vid on that

poopot

Thanks chaps... 

From what hat I can gather tru oil is Tung oil but with added hardener. 

Still not not sure I want an oil finish on this neck that coming but trying to keep options open.

only ever lacquered neck before!.

Nomad

poopot said:

From what hat I can gather tru oil is Tung oil but with added hardener. 

The MSDS says it consists of modified soybean oil, linseed oil and white spirit.

Chalky

Zoolooter said:

Pure Tung takes forever to dry, mucho patience required.

I found that out the hard way - waiting closer to two weeks until it was completely dry.

poopot

Mind made up... dulux it is!.

PVO_Dave

poopot said:

Thanks chaps... 

From what hat I can gather tru oil is Tung oil but with added hardener. 

Still not not sure I want an oil finish on this neck that coming but trying to keep options open.

only ever lacquered neck before!.

I’m sure if you ask Grahame nicely enough, he’ll include a small container of eze-oil. That’s what my two r/w necks are finished in, great stuff!

poopot

PVO_Dave said:

poopot said:

Thanks chaps... 

From what hat I can gather tru oil is Tung oil but with added hardener. 

Still not not sure I want an oil finish on this neck that coming but trying to keep options open.

only ever lacquered neck before!.

I’m sure if you ask Grahame nicely enough, he’ll include a small container of eze-oil. That’s what my two r/w necks are finished in, great stuff!

I have both your build threads bookmarked!...

they look spectacular!. I spoke to Rothko to get my waterslides and mentioned your strat neck, can’t tell you how keen he was NOT to do that again... said it was very anxiety inducing!.

the more I look at the tru oil then more i can’t help thinking it’s just a wipe on lacquer... I will have to lacquer the face of the headstock for the waterslide, I may well give the back of the neck a light pass whilst I’m there.

bizarely enough I had a go on a custom shop strat relic with a rosewood neck last week. They appear to have piled the back of the neck but lacquerd the fret board!... compleate with worn out finger spots as part of the relic job... really weird!...

how does the eze oil differ from the others?

PVO_Dave

Haha, I can imagine Simon at Rothko saying that, I’m sure you could twist his arm though!

I’ve only used Eze and Wudtone. Eze was a Grahame recommendation, easy to apply, quick to dry and hard finish. 

If you’re sticking with a decal, spray the headstock, oil and wax (Briwax) the back, it’ll feel amazing to play! I did the same for my sparkly JM build. 

WezV

Tru-oil dries quicker and can be built up.

it can be used as a lacquer, but lacquer does it better.   Try-oil works great when treated as an oil for me.  If you are after high gloss you may as well use lacquer.  Tru oil will get you there with a lot of work.

Its at the thicker end of the spectrum. Danish oil is usually half way between Tung and Tru in terms of thickness and drying times