[TheForge] Finish on a fork

[Dave Brown]

At 15:52 01/06/03 -0700, you wrote:
>I did like you guys said.  I coated my fork in vegi-oil, wiped it off and 
>threw it in the oven for half an hour at 400 deg.  When I pulled it out it 
>had an amber colored film all over.  I went ahead and steel-wolled it off 
>cause it was kind of tacky.  Should I have left this on or did I do right?
>It feels smooth now, I dont know, never done this before.

That amber tacky stuff was the polymerizing oil.  I'd have left it on, but 
you may have left a reasonably useful layer of the polymerized oil 
there.  Let it go a while and see if it works.  If not, do it again, but 
leave the sticky piece out for a while and it may harden some more.

Dave Brown
Heritage Smithing
Green Bay, WI
ABANA, UMBA, GoM, MODA, ARG