Finnish pine tar
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Contact George Brett,I'm sure he still has some.
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Check with you local farm supply place. They use pine tar on horses for something, and most horse supply stores sell a selection of it. Sometimes you can get it at a Boat yard too. It's an old time preservative and effective fungicide.
I use it to make my own leather dope as well as "Down East Deck Dope" used in the old sailing ship days as a wood preservative.
"Copenhagen tar" is a mixture of pine tar, BLO, and Japan dryer. They used it to make "oilskins" and make canvas water resistant before vulcanized rubber came along. Some old Salts preferred oilskin to the newfangled rain gear right up into the 20th Century.
I use it to make my own leather dope as well as "Down East Deck Dope" used in the old sailing ship days as a wood preservative.
"Copenhagen tar" is a mixture of pine tar, BLO, and Japan dryer. They used it to make "oilskins" and make canvas water resistant before vulcanized rubber came along. Some old Salts preferred oilskin to the newfangled rain gear right up into the 20th Century.
Milsurp Fan hooked me up with veterinary pine tar. I used it on some dry Polish & stripped Maadi AK furniture & was very happy. Very much a brown/red stain, but penetrates varying amounts, depends on the wood grain & temp vs time left on.
Vet pine tar smells bad, but not as bad as the Swedish has been reputed to be. BLO or varnish will seal up the unique odor.
I have not mixed BLO/PT, just used PT first, then sealed after.
Vet pine tar smells bad, but not as bad as the Swedish has been reputed to be. BLO or varnish will seal up the unique odor.
I have not mixed BLO/PT, just used PT first, then sealed after.
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