Lemon Oil

[NiTay614]

I heard you talk about dipping the scroll saw project into lemon oil. Will the lemon oil interfer with gluing the finished projet to the felt?

[Travis]

It depends on what kind of glue you use. Any oil will affect a standard wood glue or white PVA glue.

 

I don't use oil on my scroll saw portraits. Oil is used to bring out the grain, and since I use Baltic Birch plywood, it has very little grain to show off. Instead, I just clearcoat the portrait with clear acrylic spray. I also don't glue felt to my projects. I just set them behind the project and the frame backer keeps the felt in place.

 

Oil would be good on ply where color or grain is a focal point. I also use oil on all of my solid-wood projects.

 

But I guess I went a bit off topic. If you were to use oil on a portrait and wanted to glue the felt to the project, I'd use a hot glue gun. It holds well and can be easily removed. Other alternatives: epoxy, construction adhesive, super glue (ca glue), and spray adhesive would all work.

[qlty]

My way of useing lemon oil is to fill an old jelly jar half full of it ,cut the handle off a cheap chip brush to fit in the jar so lid can be closed.This way no mess or clean up.I find that a brush on of the oil is enough to bring out grain in most woods instead of soaking,also drying time is faster.Glueing to oil is a tough one,perhaps after oil dries real good and a clear arcrilic is applied to the back gluing might be more efective??John aka qlty