What is Tru-Oil?

[tcarp]

I've seen a million threads on this stuff but frankly, I never really paid that much attention. I just purchased this Warmoth alder Strat body and planned on using some flavor of Mohawk trans toner, but I want to keep my options open so I got a bunch of questions.

1) Where do you get it?

2) Is it available in different colors/tones?

3) Suitable for Alder?

4) Does the body require sand/sealer (nitro)?

5) Application?

6) Cure times?

7) Procedure?

8) Compatible with nitro clear?

If there's a tutorial buried somewhere here I'd appreciate a link.

Thanks in advance

Tom

Here's the body:

[PhilT]

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-tech...y-tru-oil.html

Check out the post by Colt, those videos are very useful.

[PhilT]

http://www.lmii.com/carttwo/truoil.htm

And this link was posted by Skub in the same thread.

Hope this helps

[howlin]

Nice. Now all you need is a top-loader... ;-)

+1 on the Tru-Oil btw.

[coolpool]

ooooo, Pretty!

[robt57]

I thought it was Urethane with some Sodium Pentothal in it....

[Colt W. Knight]

It is a mixture of linseed oil, mineral spirits and modified oil. I have seen conflicting opinions what modified oil means, some say polymerized tung oil while others sayo alkalyd resin.

[Dave W]

Originally Posted by Colt W. Knight

It is a mixture of linseed oil, mineral spirits and modified oil. I have seen conflicting opinions what modified oil means, some say polymerized tung oil while others sayo alkalyd resin.

Tru-Oil is a varnish.

The MSDS does say linseed oil, mineral spirits and modified oil. IMHO it's intended to mislead people into thinking it's some kind of oil product. "Modified oil" is a weasel word for oil-modified alkyd resin. It's chemically combined with the linseed oil to make a varnish.

There's no separately-added oil. If there were, it wouldn't dry hard.

I'm sure this will be forgotten by next week's Tru-Oil thread.