tung oil

Tung oil had previously been available only from China.

The architects left the wood unsealed, using tung oil as a finish.

Learn about some of the most popular oils - Danish and tung oil finishes - on this page.

Tung oil and persimmon water are made adhering to the traditional methods of production.

After flourishing from the 1920s to the 1940s the American tung oil industry was wiped out by frost and hurricanes.

Tung oil, skin paper and persimmon oil are all strictly picked.

The "curing" of tung oil could in theory fulfill this requirement, but alone that is not sufficient.

The wood may also be oiled with a finishing agent such as linseed or tung oil.

Modified tung oil and phenolic resins are often used.

Quality control is strict, the four trenches should not meet and the tung oil must be spread evenly across the umbrella surface.

The two most important finishing oils, to this day, are linseed oil and tung oil.

Tung oil is pressed from the nuts of the tung tree.

As tung oil yellows with age less than linseed, it is favoured for high quality and furniture work.

During the Song Dynasty, tung oil was used for waterproofing on ships.

The non-yellowing nature of tung oil is vitally important for its satisfactory use in these applications.

The heat for a tung oil finish is best generated by applying it with a coarse rag and rubbing hard.

New qualitative tests for rape and tung oils.

Tung oil, a furniture finish made from the seeds of the tung tree.

Tung oil has been known about for hundreds of years in China, where it was used as a preservative for wood ships.

Brushed with tung oil, named the green cloth (綠衣子).

Tung oil is etymologically derived from the Chinese tongyou.

Q.A year ago I put two coats of tung oil on my teak-veneer table.

Finally, there are the oil finishes, like linseed oil and tung oil.

A.Two coats of tung oil are not enough to really seal the teak if no other finish has been applied.

However, after 1953, world prices declined and production dropped as Tung oil was replaced by cheaper petrochemical substitutes.