I have this wooden shaving soap bowl that used to hold CE Sienna and currently holding a half used Truefitt and Hill Luxury Shave soap puck (great soap by the way). The bowl is in great shape but the finish is starting to wear out on the inside. Can I refinish them once I'm done this puck and what should I use?
Re-Habilitating a Wood Shaving Soap Bowl
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You are likely going to get a myriad of answers for finishing products. You can certainly refinish it. I would recommend you sand the bowl well and then finish with a good drying oil. If you are willing to wait, I would recommend pure tung oil. In a warm, dry environment, it will cure in about a month. If you would rather speed it up, you could use walnut oil. It would dry in about 5-7 days. Just my two cents worth.
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Hi Joe,
That's perfect, I got some tung oil in the workshop and I could find a small tin of walunt oil at my local hardware store. That's all I need to know, I was thinking a penetrating oil of some kind.
Bill
That's perfect, I got some tung oil in the workshop and I could find a small tin of walunt oil at my local hardware store. That's all I need to know, I was thinking a penetrating oil of some kind.
Bill
I used tung oil on a Trumper bowl that was really water stained. Sanded it down a bit to remove fuzz, then gave it one coat overall and a second coat around the lip of the bowl. It took a while to cure, but I wasn't in need of it at the time, so could wait. Turned out beautifully. I'll have to remember the walnut oil idea.
Dave
You could sand, stain whatever color you want and cover with Thompson's Water Seal. Thompson's is meant to shellac a deck but it should work in your bowl for a few years, anyway. It comes in a gallon jug that would probably seal 50 shave bowls but it also cures much faster than walnut or tung oil.
I like tung oil better, but walnut oil works very well and dry in about a quarter of the time that it takes for tung oil.
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