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greenchicken	Woods and Finishes suitable for your mouth.	Lead	[-]
Posts: 3088 (09/02/08 2:02 PM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Before I start giving away my PVC flutes to friends and family I want to make sure no one gets sick. I made one mouth piece from olive wood. Not sure if it is toxic, but it taste so bad I can't imagine using it. I have made a few from poplar and red oak which I suspect is fine, but I also made some with bubinga. Any opinions? What about Ipe, osage, and teak. I have lots of scraps I would like to use. As for finishes I plan to use beeswax which I trust is safe. But are there any opinions on gun oil?
Mister Owl		#1	[-]
Posts: 697 (09/02/08 2:16 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'd use mineral, nut or a vegetable oil before gun oil. Gun oil is likely mineral oil, but with whatever additives a manufacturer deemed necessary. You can cheat and add a bit of cedar oil to the mineral oil so your flutes smell like cedar. Hootie Illegitimi Non Carborundum.
Flyfsh		#2	[-]
Posts: 1234 (09/02/08 3:03 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The gun oil I use on my guns is petrolieum based. I would agree with hootie on his sugestions. I made 1 flute from osage (omg try to carve that stuff) lol. I noticed no taste or order at all before I finished it. I just use a mix of butcher block oil and bees wax. Jim

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