Mineral Oil For Faded Finish

[HawkeyeLinus]

However, should you murder somebody else and try this trick to remove blood stains on your clothes before the cops come calling, your saliva won’t work on someone else’s blood.

Crap, wish I'd seen this yesterday . . . .

 

[Briar Lee]

I saw an old thread about this a while back, but I thought I’d revive the subject in case it could help somebody else. I recently cleaned the gunk off a Radice Rind using spit and a paper towel, and while it worked great, the finish was severely faded afterward.

(Cue the mineral oil)

I dipped a pipe cleaner in the oil and rubbed it into all the nooks and crannies. One pass, rubbed off the excess with a paper towel, literally took 30 seconds. Color me freakin’ impressed. It’s incredibly gratifying to do practically zero work and get these kind of results.

Obviously, this probably doesn’t work great for every finish. A smooth virgin stain might be a totally different story. But I’m damn happy with what it did for this dark rind finish

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The exact same result can be obtained using grapeseed oil instead of paint thinner.



The difference is the do gooders leave off the skull and crossbones from grapeseed oil.

I think grapeseed oil don’t cause no cancer in the State of California, either.

You can buy a lot bigger bottle of olive oil for less than grapeseed oil, too.

But olive oil darkens old dull pipes more.

 

[BigR]

An old Dr Grabow pamphlet that I have.

 

[OzPiper]

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Cheap (costs nothing), renewable and not only natural, but organic.
Ticks all the (green) boxes

 

[instymp]

Got tired of spitting on my pipe, tap water & paper towel works for me.

 

[AreBee]

I use Howard Wax-It-All on briar and stem after every smoke. This stuff is beeswax,carnauba wax, and food grade mineral oil.
Works great and keeps things simple. Try some!

We had some Howard's Butcher Block Conditioner laying around. It has those same ingredients and works very well.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Something else about saliva as a cleaning agent. Blood stains are notoriously difficult to get out of fabric. Should you accidentally cut yourself and get blood on your clothes, wetting the stain with your saliva before washing will break down the blood stain and it will completely wash out. Being a bit of a klutz I’ve had occasion to accidentally cut myself without realizing it, and I’ve used this method to remove the occasional cuff or sleeve blood stain.
However, should you murder somebody else and try this trick to remove blood stains on your clothes before the cops come calling, your saliva won’t work on someone else’s blood.

Will it get powder burn residue off my fingers? I'm asking for a friend.

 

[Briar Lee]

Will it get powder burn residue off my fingers? I'm asking for a friend.

WD-40 will not only remove powder residue, it will soothe the aches and pains of arthritis.

Just don’t let Mama catch you, wasting WD 40 like that.

(Mama buys Ivory Soap for that purpose)

 

[woodrow]

I’ve found that mineral oil will significantly darken a pipe IF left too long on the pipe. A light coating left for a minute is what I like.
Mineral oil also does wonders when setting a stain.
In the winter, my buffer is outside, so before allowing a briar to rest I’ll use Renaissance wax.