[email protected] wrote:
> Hello
>
> I made a cutting board for my wife. I used maple and after I added
> canola oil for 24 hrs, the wood had splinters in the corner. Big inch
> splinters too!
>
> I resanded and oiled it. This time with much higher grain sandpaper.
> I was wondering what would make the wood split like that?
Don't know about the splitting but a question about the oil. I thought
any food based oil was a no-no because it will eventually go rancid.
Is Canola oil different?
Darrell Feltmate wrote:
> I am a wood turner. For us, mineral oil and the vegetable oils are standards
> for kitchen ware, everything from spatulas to bowls and certainly cutting
> boards. Walnut oil hardens over time so it is not going to go rancid.
> Frankly, I have never seen a scientific study that indicates any vegetable
> oil will go rancid when used as a wood finish. This appears to be an urban
> legend. Anybody out there over the age of fifty ever hunted? Most of the old
> gunstocks were finished with rubbed in, raw linseed oil, a vegetable oil or
> nut oil by our definitions. Do you remember a rancid smell from the stock
> when you had it to your shoulder for a shot?
> ______
I've never been much of a hunter, but I spent some time oiling a walnut
stock while I was in the USMC. I enlisted there just shy of 50 years
ago (delayed enlistment in December of '57, so I didn't get to play
with an M1 until January 6, 1958, though). For the years I was in, raw
linseed oil, rubbed in with the fingertips, was how you did it. I never
once heard of a rancid rifle stock.
> > legend. Anybody out there over the age of fifty ever hunted? Most of the old
> > gunstocks were finished with rubbed in, raw linseed oil, a vegetable oil or
> > nut oil by our definitions. Do you remember a rancid smell from the stock
> > when you had it to your shoulder for a shot?
> > ______
> I never
> once heard of a rancid rifle stock.
That's probably because linseed oil, unlike most other vegetable oils,
polymerizes (hardens).
"efgh" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:ExYJg.1014$Mh7.878@edtnps90...
>
> "CW" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>I have heard it said that you shouldn't use vegetable oils because they go
>> rancid, I have also heard from a lot of people that have been doing it
>> for
>> years with no problem. I have never heard of a case where it actually did
>> go
>> rancid. Sounds like one of those things that someone suggested as a
>> possibility and people keep repeating it.
>>
>> "RayV" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>>
>>> Don't know about the splitting but a question about the oil. I thought
>>> any food based oil was a no-no because it will eventually go rancid.
>>> Is Canola oil different?
>>>
>>
> I thought you only used Mineral Oil on a cutting board.
>
I've heard walnut oil...
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello
>
> I made a cutting board for my wife. I used maple and after I added
> canola oil for 24 hrs, the wood had splinters in the corner. Big inch
> splinters too!
>
> I resanded and oiled it. This time with much higher grain sandpaper.
> I was wondering what would make the wood split like that?
Wood still too green?
Things can split and crack if you use wood with too much moisture still
present, especially if the board was made by gluing together several pieces
of green wood.
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"CW" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I have heard it said that you shouldn't use vegetable oils because they go
> rancid, I have also heard from a lot of people that have been doing it for
> years with no problem. I have never heard of a case where it actually did
> go
> rancid. Sounds like one of those things that someone suggested as a
> possibility and people keep repeating it.
>
> "RayV" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
>> Don't know about the splitting but a question about the oil. I thought
>> any food based oil was a no-no because it will eventually go rancid.
>> Is Canola oil different?
>>
>
I thought you only used Mineral Oil on a cutting board.
Yes, unless you use something else.
"efgh" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:ExYJg.1014$Mh7.878@edtnps90...
> I thought you only used Mineral Oil on a cutting board.
>
>
"CW" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I have heard it said that you shouldn't use vegetable oils because they go
> rancid, I have also heard from a lot of people that have been doing it for
> years with no problem. I have never heard of a case where it actually did
> go
> rancid. Sounds like one of those things that someone suggested as a
> possibility and people keep repeating it.
>
> "RayV" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
>> Don't know about the splitting but a question about the oil. I thought
>> any food based oil was a no-no because it will eventually go rancid.
>> Is Canola oil different?
>>
>
>
I would think that most cutting boards are washed after every use. So it's
not like it was sitting for long periods of time before the old surface was
washed off and a new fresh coat was rubbed on . Maybe the first coat was
/has cured and the top coat acts like a barrier to keep the first coat from
going rancid. Just a thought.
Jim
I have heard it said that you shouldn't use vegetable oils because they go
rancid, I have also heard from a lot of people that have been doing it for
years with no problem. I have never heard of a case where it actually did go
rancid. Sounds like one of those things that someone suggested as a
possibility and people keep repeating it.
"RayV" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Don't know about the splitting but a question about the oil. I thought
> any food based oil was a no-no because it will eventually go rancid.
> Is Canola oil different?
>
I am a wood turner. For us, mineral oil and the vegetable oils are standards
for kitchen ware, everything from spatulas to bowls and certainly cutting
boards. Walnut oil hardens over time so it is not going to go rancid.
Frankly, I have never seen a scientific study that indicates any vegetable
oil will go rancid when used as a wood finish. This appears to be an urban
legend. Anybody out there over the age of fifty ever hunted? Most of the old
gunstocks were finished with rubbed in, raw linseed oil, a vegetable oil or
nut oil by our definitions. Do you remember a rancid smell from the stock
when you had it to your shoulder for a shot?
______
God bless and safe turning
Darrell Feltmate
Truro, NS, Canada
www.aroundthewoods.com
www.roundopinions.blogspot.com
"Jim Northey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:Wp4Kg.493471$iF6.418943@pd7tw2no...
>
> "CW" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >I have heard it said that you shouldn't use vegetable oils because they
go
> > rancid, I have also heard from a lot of people that have been doing it
for
> > years with no problem. I have never heard of a case where it actually
did
> > go
> > rancid. Sounds like one of those things that someone suggested as a
> > possibility and people keep repeating it.
> >
> > "RayV" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> >>
> >> Don't know about the splitting but a question about the oil. I thought
> >> any food based oil was a no-no because it will eventually go rancid.
> >> Is Canola oil different?
> >>
> >
> >
> I would think that most cutting boards are washed after every use. So
it's
> not like it was sitting for long periods of time before the old surface
was
> washed off and a new fresh coat was rubbed on . Maybe the first coat was
> /has cured and the top coat acts like a barrier to keep the first coat
from
> going rancid. Just a thought.
> Jim
>
>