removing linseed oil

I bought Nth Qld hardwood and the supplier said to coat with linseed oil and turbs to preserve the hardwood.
Unfortunately I didn't know that painting onto linseed oil was impossible. How do I remove the linseed or even better how do I paint onto the linseed coating. The hardwood colour isn't the same and therefore I want to hide this by painting.

Youll probably need something like this.


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Al :D

Although Al's idea is probably the easiest :D you could try the following on a small piece.

Wash and rub down with turps and steelwool to remove the oiliness, when dry rub again with steel wool or a light sand and give it a coat of shellac. Then paint as normal.

Try it on a small piece for whilst I understand it will work I have never needed to try it so no guarantees. If you do let us know if it worked.


Peter.

Flooding with methylated spirits and sun drying should work - slow process though !! :D

I'd be surprised if some paints weren't compatible with linseed oil (they ALL used to be), making cleaning it off unnecessary. Paint store staff would know. Good luck.

Should be no reason why you can't paint over it with an oil based paint although finding an oil based paint these days might be a bit of a task. Any paint that uses turpentine as a thinned should work.

Cheers - Neil :)

PS I think Solver and Haymes still have some oil based paints..... Worth a try.

thanks for the advise. i have been to a dulux store and was told that they could not guarantee that oil based paints and especially water based paints would stick to the linseed oil. I will try steel wool and turbs.