Red oil
In the Purdey video the finisher mention that they use Boiled linseed oil as base for the Red oil 1:22:22.
Since the red oil comes on first it should have the best penetrating capabilities if you want depth. Any thoughts on why raw linseed oil is not used?
I want to underline that I do no question the methods that used by Purdey (if correctly presented) by any mean- I am just a bit curios regarding the choice of boiled oil in comparison to raw.
So far I have only used CCL red oil and I am about to make my own red oil since I got a big bag of Alkanet root last week.
So the question still lingers- Raw or Boiled linseed oil for the base of Red oil?
Benefits of Raw oil might be to get a deep and even distribution of the colour?
The finisher also mentions-if I understand him correctly- that he start out with a thin coat which he the then burnishes in. After that he applies two heavy coats to soak in. Why this order- why not the heavy coats to start of with?
