How to Apply Pure Tung Oil to Wood (the right way)
Today I am going to show you how to do a 100%pure tung oil finish the right way.
So the first thing you are going to do isyou are going to dilute the first coat.
To make sure this tung oil doesn't go bad, just squeeze the air bubbles out.
Like this guy right here we don't want himin there.
So I'm going to let him come out.
There he is! And bam! I'm going to dilute it, you can use mineralspirits, I'm using turpentine because I'm hardcore like that I guess, right now anyway, that's what I have.
And you dilute it 1:1, and you can eyeballit, it's ok, you can eyeball it.
Boom, that's about it.
I can tell you right now, just for what Iam using this for right now tonight, that's way too much.
Stir it up so it's not milky, it will mixtogether pretty good, and now it's just a thin tung oil.
Now I know a lot of people want to use puretung oil, first coat really needs to be thinned, if you don't want to use turpentine or mineralspirits, and you are really trying to be as green as possible, you should use somethinglike pure orange oil, or something like that.
I'll put links in the description.
Anyway.
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and now you are just going to needa rag and paper towels.
For my first coat, you just put it on heavyand rub it into the surface, it soaks right into the wood like everyone talks about.
Yeah, of course, the wood is all dried out.
And so you just work this into the wood andI am going to do it to the whole piece real quick.
Thinning out the first coat will make sureyou get deeper into the wood and if you don't, I have done both, but I just want that addedprotection of thinning it out first.
And I end up doing three whole coats.
This is a really dense wood this is purpleheart wood.
This guy is super dense and if you startedthe first coat without thinning it, good luck getting into this grain cause this guy.
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Iguess you could treat it as a one and done, (laughs)without diluting it, but itwouldn't get very deep into the wood.
Parts of the grain are soaking up tung oilfaster than other parts, so what you want to do is you want to come back around, justrub a little more on, and then give it a minute, basically while you are working on this, tosoak in.
So I am going to leave that one alone whileI work on this other guy, and that will give me just enough time to let it all soak inin there, and we can get this guy done.
And now we are going to let this guy sit herefor a little bit, I have them both covered really well.
So they are soaking up the oil.
The grain is taking it all in.
There is some real nice figure that's poppingright now.
I will have to show it to you.
I'm done with this, I'm going to cap thisoff, now this I am not planning on keeping long term, this jar, so I'm not going to dispersethe air, with marbles or anything like that.
Now I am just wiping off all the excess oil.
See it's all oily, and I am wiping that alloff completely.
You can see some of the figure right here.
Curly.
I wasn't trying to get curly purpleheart, but a lot of it comes that way.
Huge, monstrous trees.
So I am just going to wipe down the face ofit and the side of it one last time real quick before I leave it alone.
One last quick wipe down.
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ok, now I am goingto leave it alone for an hour.
Then we'll come back.
It is an hour later, and now I'm going toadd more tung oil to the diluted tung oil without making too big of a mess.
Going to close it up the same way as before.
Now it's still diluted, but it's going tobe thicker now.
Ok, one more hour.
On the last coat, new cloth, pure tung oil, undiluted.
This stuff is like a thick syrup going onnow.
It is the next day, and you can see some places, this is the only spot I really found where it looks wet, like it pushed the oil out, what will happen is it will sweat some of the oil out.
So what you are going to do is just wipe itoff with a paper towel.
Then if you do this, you are set, now youjust got to let it cure, but that's it.
That's all there is to it.
This is what they look like after a week ofcuring, they are dry now, there isn't any wet spots, it's not sweating tung oil anymore, and they are ready for art.
And that's the way I do a pure tung oil finish.
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