Japan Drier Linseed Oil. Japan drier is a common lay term and generic product name for any oil drying agent that can be mixed with drying oils such as boiled linseed oil and alkyd resin paints to speed up drying. About 2% of these are herbal extract, 1% are other extracts. Dry white lead, 10 lbs.
Raw linseed oil can take anywhere from a few weeks to a couple of months to fully dry, which is why most linseed oil is boiled.
Tung oil and linseed oil both come from plants. The oil is obtained by pressing, sometimes followed by solvent extraction. Health food store flax seed oil is what i boiled linseed oil was just that and could be applied by hand because there japan drier is not synthetic urushiol (the wikipedia entry is confusing on that. Another oil which is known as a drying oil, the linseed oil is an oil which is comprised of seeds which come from the flax plant. A level 0.01mm thick coating of linseed oil dries to form a tenaciously adhering, durable film. Linseed oil has been used on rifle stocks for over a century and one of the most common coatings in the world. Whereas raw is in its purest form and is slow to dry. Raw pressed cold, raw pressed warm and boiled.
