Where to Buy Linseed Oil?

Tractor Supply or any farm store should have some boiled linseed oil or your local hardware store. (Mead lumber, Menards or Home depot).

Dave from Diller
 
Yes, boiled linseed oil is what you're looking for (or should be). Places to buy are as Dave said. Consider Watco's Danish Oil too, a poly-oil-phenolic blend. Even better yet? 20 or so coats of fresh-mixed blonde or super blonde shellac, buffed out between every other coat, finished with wax.
 
I've tried various oils on wooden knife handles, and just want to add that if the wood is an
oily wood to begin with - such as cocobolo or lignum vitae - oiling the wood can be overkill.

So on oily types of woods now I just use Renaissance Wax which is a great product.
 
is renaissance wax useful on blades, also? There are two products they make; one is a polish, one a coating. How well do these function for protecting steel in humid environs? Any problems on damascus?
 
Read the cautions on the Linseed Oil can carefully.
Dispose of your rags properly. Don't leave them crumbled in a corner. They can start a fire all on their own.
 
The linseed oil and rags things is absolutely not a joke. Not only CAN it happen, but it probably will. One of my neighbors had a crew come in and redo all her floors and built-ins, then some of the crew broke for lunch and left a few piles of linseed oil soaked rags in the unit and it almost gutted the place by the time the fire dept. put it out. Spontaneous combustion at its finest.
 
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