Question on Teak oil and epoxy

[panch0]

I have alot of cocobolo I want to use and treat with teak oil. Does the teak oil degrade the effectiveness of the epoxy if applied in generouse amounts. I have vulcanized liner material between the handle slabs and the tang. My worry is the teak oil getting absorbed into the liner material and causeing an epoxy failure. I have not heard of this happening , but wanted to hear what you guys think. Thanks.

-frank

 

[wordsmith]

not sure, but i think "vulcanized" usually applies to rubber, as in hockey pucks and Ace hard rubber combs. As such, I don't think it is absorbent. I'm interested to find out what everyone says, because I just finished my first with liner material yesterday and finished it with teak oil!

 

[Frank Niro]

Almost all epoxies will not work with oily woods. However as always there is an exception. AN epoxy made by Industrial Formulators works super. I haven't checkd threm out in the last few years to see if they are still going. ALL of their epoxies are first class !!!! Frank