Re: [Paddlewise] Using oil and wax on wooden frame?

> >From owner-owner_at_ns1.intelenet.net Mon Sep 20 08:11 PDT 1999
> To: owner-paddlewise_at_ns1.intelenet.net
> From: F.SOETHE_at_OLN.comlink.apc.org (Ferdinand Soethe)
> Subject: Using oil and wax on wooden frame?
> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:18:40 +0000
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> 
> I just bought my first folding kayak (a Nautiraid double with a
> wooden frame) and did a nice trip around the Italien island of
> Elba with it (report coming as soon as I get to finish it).
> 
> Now the paint has been scraped off the frame where the pieces are
> connected and I need to renew the protectice coating.
> 
> I'm wondering, if I couldn't just apply wood oil and wax rather
> then normal paint, the advantage being that oil will pentrate the
> wood and protect even when the surface gets scratched.
> 
> The same question applies to a small dent in my wooden paddle.
> 
> Has anybody tried that or knows why you should or shouldn't do it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ferdinand

Mel Lammers gives sound advice on the varnish approach to these spots. 
But if the spots that have rubbed off are not too large, you can do the
oil routine you mention.

If you go the varnish route, be real careful with the Nautiraid to do
only a thin recoating.  If the worn spots are just where the long wooden
square rods meet the open notches in the wooden crossframes, a slightly
overly done varnishing should be no problem.  But if you are
revarnishing where the long wooden square rods are joined
inside hinges or where wooden square rod ends join at the middle of the
boat in a a brass fitting, then you need to keep the varnish coating
quite thin.  Otherwise the wood will not be able to enter the fitting
or will get stuck inside.

Generally, I wouldn't worry about the varnishing or the oiling.  Nothing
really happens to the wood unless you leave bilge water in the boat all
the time.  And anyway, the Nautiraids leak the least of all the folding
kayaks.

ralph diaz
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