[frankmcvey]

Something you need to watch - there's a big difference between straight linseed oil and boiled linseed oil. Straight linseed oil takes a long time to cure unless driers are added. BLO is slower than modern oil finishes, but still much faster than the straight variety.

BLO was the traditional finish for fine gunstocks; an old recipe called for oiling a new stock once a day for a week; then once a week for a month; then once a month for a year, and yearly thereafter to maintain it.

In older military equipment, shellac was to impregnate transformers.

Cheers,

Frank