... If they're not telling you what it consists of, that's because you could easily concoct the same with readily available ingredients at a fraction of the...

On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:53:06 +1000, terryjbarnett947 ... They seem mostly to be mineral oils. I recommend them to my customers on the basis that (hopefully)...

... If they did their homework and somehow managed to come to a conclusion I am wondering how it happened. The more I did my homework the harder it was to do...

Terry, I had never heard that the use of peanut oil was introduced for conservation purposes; I had heard it was economic. Thank you for that tidbit. But...

On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:19:18 +1000, bellwoodwind <bellwoodwind@...> ... Yes, don't regard it as gospel, I don't remember where I read it, and it proved...

I'm off tomorrow for holiday so just a short reply. The Getty/UCLA material is not one paper but many on the preservation of wooden artifacts. It shouldn't be...

... Then I wonder what is to be made of the fact that the vast majority of period instruments fail to appear in the museums, gone the way of the Norwegian Blue...

... I wasn't aware that was a fact, I've seen ample amounts of wooden flutes and other winds from the past in museums as well as in private collections . Good...

... Just a quick note: This is another of those things I read a lot about once upon a time and then forgot most if it. Thin mineral oil is the stuff of choice...

Just my .02 from a former biochemist and amateur traverso player. What I thougt I understood is that the point of oiling is to replenish the lipid content of...