please help, need to preserve this100 yr old tool

[McDyver]

found this cant hook this morning, very good condition even the handle! But the wood will dry out and check, any tips to preserve would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[etracmick]

Rub it on with a rag and let it soak in. Brings back a little color. Do that a couple times a year. Should last a long time.

 

[Mac in Hancock]

Tung oil is another one to try--its the same idea as linseed oil, i.e. you have to keep reapplying it, but it makes a great finish!

 

[McDyver]

Thanks for the tips, but the wood is water soaked and wont absorb oil. I heard something about soaking it something to displace the water and at the same time preventing the damage of drying but I can't remember the solution. Anybody know? Antifreeze?

 

[kmandiver]

You should be keeping it wet until you can process it. The book Relics, Water and the Kitchen Sink by Alan Rowe list two methods. Both include the use of varying strengths of alcohol and either parafin, or acetone and celuoid.

 

[McDyver]

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[McDyver]

I'm not sure why this posting was moved from beach and water, I found this in the water next to a swimming area. Anybody else know?

 

[Larry (IL)]

You didn't mention that it was a water find in your original post...........anyway you are welcome here with your great find.

 

[Randyjay]

Awesome Find McDyver , I love to come across those old lumbering tools . As a kid on my grandfathers land in South Branch Mich a stream runs through it which leads into the Au sable river . I picked several lumbering tools out of there and years latter went back with my detector only to find one large lumbering spike . I did a good job as a kid picking the tools out of the river . A family friend and I were talking last year about a spot which we believe was a camp site for the men when they floated logs down the stream in the spring . He did some poking around and came up Worth some vague references to a camp site in that area in the 1870's to 1880's . I know where I'll be in the fall .

 

[JeffNS]

We call 'em PEAVEY'S on the East coast. Nice find.