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Anonymous
4 December 2012 at 11:47 am
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I’m sorry I’m late in replying, but Joseph and Ken have both hit the nail on the head. I tend to reserve boiled linseed oil for utility projects such as (As Joseph rightly recommended) saw horses, benches, cricket bats, etc.. Items intended to take a bit of abuse, whereas – if moving onto furniture – I tend to set a baseline using blonde shellac as a sanding coat and then work with whichever material I intend to use and finish with. Shellac works very well as a means of sealing timber and reducing nibbing, plus a basis from which you can work with most finish types. 🙂