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Hi all, someone suggested that I try this product to "shine up" the stocks on my oil finished stocks. He said it works very well.

Has anyone else had any experience with this product? If so, how did it work for you?

Thanks!!!

Greg

It is a very good product, but no better than what you can make yourself without the hassle of shopping around or importing, by going to this thread on this board 'Alkanet Oil' its about 15 pages long with LOTS of good information on stock finishing.
Those of you who prefer a commercial brand should try 'Trade Secrets' Stock finishing oil. Available from Woodcockhill, it is the bees knees (or should that be 'the beeswax'???).
But I know you Yanks prefer Tung Oil.
As my Old school mistress once said "Some people, you can't educate"
As a young finisher back in the '60's whilst finshing stocks I used to listen to Chuck Berry & the Spencer Davis Group belting out 'Keep on Running' to which I accompanied them by singing 'keep on rubbing'much to the annoyance of my 'Master'who preferred Elgar.

I am using a blend that I obtained from SmallBore (Dig). I was once a dedicated Tung oil user. Well, I am here to tell you that there is no comparison. The blend that I am now using is FAR superior to any tung oil or tung oil/linseed oil blend that i used previously.

The lemon oil is quite good for use exactly as suggested-cleaning up a previously oil finished stock after a hard day (or, week, or month) in the field. It is excellent at floating dirt, dust and the odd grime that develops when the above come into contact with sweat and body oil after hard use for a while. Use it with a clean white cloth, dampening the surface, allowing it to work on the crud, and the drying it off with a new white cloth. You will be impressed.
If lemon oil is a stock finish, by itself, I've heard nothing about it. In my experience as a Yank, I can report that the very great majority of us don't use tung of any 'sort-it makes the plastic stock on the Benneli, Mossberg, or the Remington slippery, and too glossy. I love the look of a hand rubbed oil finish on a gun, and when I was new to the game, used it exclusively. But, the last gun got sprayed with a catalyzed acrylic product that mimics the look of oil (from about five feet, anyway) and is virtually maintenance free. I suspect it will be in place long after myself or my heirs have met our reward.
I still clean the surface and checkering with lemon oil.
Best,
Ted

Anyone who prefers Elgar to Chuck Berry, or early Steve Winwood, really can't be educated, by the way...
Best,
Ted

Ted, It's not lemon oil, it is Lemon Oil.Clive Lemon of Redditch UK.Manufacturer of stock finishing products and Guardian of the Birmingham Proof House.
Elgar composed amongst many others the music to Land of Hope & Glory an English National Anthem.With the decay of this Empire I propse it be renamed Land of Dope and Gory.
It's a pleasure to educate the Yanks, no need to send cheques or thanks Ted, all the very best.

I was aware Elgar composed anthems. They aren't actually on the playlist at my house (are they at your house?) because anthems aren't all that much fun. One minute, you've got a bunch of guys in brown shirts drinking in a beer garden, singing anthems, the next thing you know we have farm wives here in the states collecting old revolvers and surplus Springfield rifles to donate to an island nation that, for some reason, has misplaced theirs.
Lemon oil is the recommended care product for the finish on the veneers of the Klipsch "Heresy" model speakers we use to belt out everything from Alice Cooper to ZZ Top at my house. Plenty of English music, too, but, it is all fairly non-nationalistic.
Thanks for the heads up on the brand name product, which is different from what I suggested. I won't be using it, or any any other non catalized wood finish products in the future, as they are somewhat inferior. Beautiful, but, inferior. Time, and progress, march on. I can report, again that plain lemon grass oil is a wonderful cleaner for almost any wood finish. Economical, as well.
Granted, the empire sure isn't what it used to be, but, after reading Theodore Dalrymple over on City Journal, I'd guess it might be a good thing if the focus was closer to home these days, since, you wouldn't want to misplace anything, again, would you? The "education" we Yanks get from this Englishman never fails to turn my stomach, a good thing, actually, since I then send money to the various organizations that work to see a similar socialist vision isn't foisted upon us, as it was you. While you mull that thought over, consider sending a "cheque" (don't the French spell it that way? We write it as "check".) to whatever organization acts like the NRA over there. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and guess they are underfunded.
Best,
Ted

Salopian don't pay Ted no mind....he had tOO much Lemon oil in his coffee this morning.

Interesting products.

Clive Lemon of Redditch UK.Manufacturer of stock finishing products...where can you buy the products in the USA ?

There was a formula given in a Gun Digest a few years back for an oil stock finish, claiming British "Roots". This formula used the albumen from egg whites as a filler, hardened by the acid of rubbing with an actual lemon. I still have it but never got around to trying it, though it did sound intriguing.

"Lemon Oil" is available through the Double Gun Journal--every issue has a big advertisement for it and other stock care products. It's expensive, but lasts forever it seems. Just a drop on a fingertip rubbed into the stock and buffed with the palm of one's hand works wonders. I use it all the time.

However it is only for oil based finishes--if you use it on a poly type finish all it will do is make your stock shiny and sticky.

Keith