Top 5 Homemade Wood Sealer Recipes

[Mazay]

My favorite Wood Polish & Sealant recipes

How do you make homemade wood sealer?

[NortonDommi]

I thin raw Linseed oil with natural Turpentine,(as opposed to mineral Turpentine), and apply warm to gun-stocks until they want no more then a month or two later apply some more coats but this time with some Beeswax added. Seems to last a very long time, I can still steam out dings if wanted and is easy to upkeep.
A mix of Natural Turpentine, Neatsfoot oil, Lanolin and Beeswax has worked well for rejuvenating and conditioning leather after washing with saddle soap.

[DIYSwede]

"The Cheapskate's Mahogany" for staining & sealing plywood etc: 1/3 of each: Pine tar, Natural turpentine and boiled linseed oil.

Tin Cloth - Works for wood too: 24 % of weight Beeswax (could be subbed by Petroleum Wax if you're REAL cheap), 75 % linseed oil.
Takes weeks to set/ cure/ harden - meanwhile giving off that familiar, homey smell...

The homebrewed version from this rant: Cheap leather conditioner and personal rant (-You've been warned!)

Works for conditioning wood, leather and just about any organic textile fiber, YMMV:
CONCLUSION and Recipe:
1) Melt 55% (of weight) of beeswax - (use a water bath if you're chicken!)
2) Add 45% (of weight) ATF - cheapest is best, Dex II will do, NO synthetic stuff.
3) Heat only 'til dissolved & mixed.
4) Pour into plastic container (with preferably tapered sides) and let cool.
5) Shake the "pink soap" out - apply by scrubbing it into leather - let melt and soak in by hairdryer or in the sun.

These guys cram this ("using the finest ingredients nature can provide, derived from trees, plants, and insects")
(Like ATF - huh?) product out @ 110 USD/ gal: https://skidmores.com/our-guarantee/
PS: On Amazon you could read their "product testimonials", where all the idiots swearing by its good properties after being ripped off!



Cheers, Johan

Compulsive DIYer, Swedish Cheapskate and on constant "Bull54it Alert"

[NortonDommi]

Tin Cloth - Works for wood too: 24 % of weight Beeswax (could be subbed by Petroleum Wax if you're REAL cheap), 75 % linseed oil.
Reminds me I need a new pair of Tin Pants. A little japan drier speeds things up and some Grape oil adds flexibility.

Here's another to go with the Tin Pants, rubber from cut-up old inner tubes dissolved in Kerosene in a water bath makes a permanent waterproofing for work boots. Add rubber until no more will dissolve. Remove from heat and add some enamel thinner, stir and keep in a sealed can. This works but will ruin a pot and doesn't look nice plus takes about two weeks to dry.

I have some old recipe books going back to the mid 18th century. Interesting reading but I don't know what half the ingredients are!

[Moby Duck]

Mazay - Raw or Boiled linseed oil in these wood finish recipes please?

[Mazay]

Mazay - Raw or Boiled linseed oil in these wood finish recipes please?

it's a raw linseed oil