Will Heritage make a vintagey non-sticky neck?

[Trouble]

Just to add, Tung Oil is a nice, almost clear oil finish, dries hard and very slick. Great for necks and really any wood finish if the prep is done right.

 

Tru Oil may have linseed oil in it, but it is very, very different from boiled linseed oil.

 

Tru Oil dries like a varnish or paint, and has some of the same charachteristics of a paint although it feels slick like an oil finish.

 

Boiled linseed oil is actually flax oil and is treated (not technically boiled) so that it works as a wood finish. It's drying time is, well almost never. It will dry but takes a long time, and all the excess oil must be removed within 10 minutes or so of applying or it will become sticky and maybe skim over. It does bring out any natural figuring in the wood, and with multiple applications spread out over some time it will make a very beauitiful finish, but it takes a lot of time as it dries very slowly, and takes several applications (preferably with a good rub frum 0000 wool in between) to build up an acceptable finish.

 

I'm currently finishing my old acoustic with boiled linseed oil, very time consuming. I have seen both boiled linseed oil and tru oil used for gunstocks.

 

One thing that is wierd to me, boiled linseed oil can be added to varnish or shellac to speed up the cure time, but by itself it dries very slowly.

[Gillnetter]

Use a green Scotch pad.

[chico]

I keep a rag with Lemon Oil on it in my guitar case and use that to wipe down the back of the neck before and after playing. works great.

 

I was watching the Rolling Stones At The Max concert the other night and kept seeing Ronnie and Keith hit the bottle of baby powder in between songs..just like Michael Jordon did to improve his basketball grip, he'd give his hands a hit of baby powder and then clap em in front of broadcaster Johnny "red" Kerr (RIP) who would get the "dust"...