What Is Your Personal OB Shine Juice, Friction Polish “Secret Recipe”

What Is Your Personal
Shine Juice “Secret Recipe”

TheGlen OfDoom over at our woodturning facebook group asked the question What is your personal Shine juice “Secret Recipe”

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I can say from experience that the amount of shine that comes from OB Shine Juice comes from a couple of different factors.

#1 type of wood
#2 how well you have sanded the project, don’t expect a piece to look like glass if you only sanded to 220grit
#3 How well you apply the finish. You need to develop a technique that works for you. Too much pressure and burn will make it dull, not enough will also make it dull. You need to develop just enough heat to make all the components work together.
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I’m always fascinated with the different ways woodturners finish their wood-turning projects. In fact, I go through states, I try one formula for a couple months, then the next, then I’ll modify a formula and then I must might use pure mineral oil.

Your finish all depends on what you are going to use the project for and if it involves food. Theoretically if food is involved you need a food safe sealing and finish project. However, most will tell you that once any finish “cures” it is ‘food safe’. Not hard but cured, that could take 30 days or more.

Captain Eddie and OB Shine Juice

capn eddie shares ob shine juice formula — Capn’ Eddie on making ob shine juice and how to apply it

Joe Duncan
Eddie Castelin has a video on his youtube channel. Eddie’s finish is actually a friction polish of which there have been many variations of over the years. Capn’ Eddie makes it nice and simple.

I started playing around with Capn’ Eddie’s basic formula after I first got started. OB Shine Juice is my go to finish for wood handles and other utilitarian projects. I never seem to get a great shine, but I’m getting better and by altering some of the basics you might discover something best. But watch Capn’t Eddie, please support his channel and website!

This next video is from RickTurns (utube channel) he goes into great specifics for all you geeks that want to know exactly what is in it and how it works.

David Fafford
David Fafford 1/3 boiled linseed oil 1/3 shellac 1/3 denatured alcohol works for me

Allen Grim
Allen Grim OB shine juice isn’t exactly “secret”. See both previous comments.

Trisha Johnston
Trisha Johnston Man….I saw shine and thought it was something else🤦🤦🤣🤣🤣…got a little excited lol

Stephen Vete
Stephen Vete Nothing wrong with that!

William McNabb
William McNabb I know this is unrelated. But when I read ‘SHINE’ I think of this :-)https://youtu.be/j9FcMIYatmI
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LOLO – Shine [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
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LOLO – Shine [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
LOLO – Shine [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Nad Arn Have you dry to use mineral oil instead of linseed ?

Matthew Wilson
Matthew Wilson Nad Arn the problem is that mineral oil doesnt dry or cure at all but blo does which is one reason why it could be superior

Roger J Behnke
Roger J Behnke I haven’t tried it yet, but some people prefer tung oil instead of BLO in their Shine Juice. I’m going to give it a try when my current supply of Shine Juice is gone.

bowl finished in ob shine juice — Cedar Bowl Finished using Capn’ Eddies Ob Shine Juice

Andrew Vonderschmitt
Andrew Vonderschmitt Following

Paul L. Grimala
Paul L. Grimala If I give it to you it wont be a secret

Bob Ierien
Bob Ierien Depends on what I’m trying to make shiny. For a small piece that’s going to be handled a lot (like a pen), thin CA, usually with a coat or two of plastic polish on top. For a bigger piece that’s not going to be handled a lot, Myland’s High Build Fricti…See More

Ben Hall
Ben Hall Bob Ierien I make and use a
” wood butter ” 3 parts beeswax to 2 part mineral oil. I love this for my tools ( plane irons ect ) , old wooden hand planes and of course cutting boards. Other then that I like myland friction polish and or BLO and CA.

Bob Ierien
Bob Ierien Ben Hall I found a mineral oil/beeswax blend called Howard’s that I really like.

Bob Ierien
Bob Ierien I use it on spoons, cutting boards, bowls, pretty much anything that needs to be food safe.

Ben Hall
Ben Hall Bob Ierien I do the same. When I restore old plane irons or other tools I’ll rub this on thick and let sit overnight, then wipe clean. I have never had them rust after. This by far is one of my favorite rub on finish for utilitarian projects. I’ll have to check out the Howard’s finish.

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Donn Lee
Donn Lee 60,30,10. I went to this formula and got better shine.

Al Furtado Uses His Own
Blend of Ob Shine Juice

Al Furtado is a user of ob shine juice — Al Furtado uses his own special blend of ob shine juice

Adam Hodges
Adam Hodges Following

Mark Phillips
Mark Phillips I like to do a full coat of just blo before shine juice applications. Brings out more deep color

Original OB Shinejuice Thread

You can check out the thread over at https://www.facebook.com/groups/woodturningbasics/permalink/752679928478512/

Make Your Own Wood Finish O.B. Shine Juice with Cap’n Eddie

Make Your Own Wood Finish
O.B. Shine Juice with Cap’n Eddie

There are 100’s of ways to finish your wood turning projects. Cap’n Eddie has what he calls ob shine juice to seal and put a basic finish on your wood project. You can further finish your project by applying a different type of finish on top of your ob shine juice finish. He even says you can apply this to something that already has a finish ….guess you’ll just have to test it.

How To Make O.B. Shine Juice

He gives you the formula in the video and it consists of:

one part boiled linseed oil
one part clear shellac finish
one part denatured alchohol

Eddie has a bunch of differnet finishes he likes to use, I’ll do a Finish section for wood turning projects of all kinds from all different wood turners, so come back and check out this category everynow and again…… heck I might even put Cap’n Eddie’s secrect formula on a downloadable .txt file so you can pin it the wall right next to your lathe.

You can store the finish in any air tight container, here’s a list of finish containers you might be able to use from your home and they are free!

CA Finish ….How to Use it on
Wood Turning Projects

Hey…. did you know you can use superglue for a wood finish on your turning projects? There are all kinds of special ways to apply and precautions to take…. I’ll do a section on finishing with CA products, cap’n eddie uses this a lot, so do most of the big name wood tuners.

Watch the famous Cap’n Eddie at work and remember to support the guy by purchasing his products, jigs, tools and anything else he has on wood turning

Here is the receipe for OB Shine Juice Directly from Capn Eddie

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Or Go to this URL

Click to access shinejuice.54184110.pdf

Remember…. Keep Cap’n Eddie busy and buy his tools and products at http://eddiecastelin.com/

Two Dollar Sharpening Jig by Cap’n Eddie Castelin

Two Dollar Sharpening Jig
by Cap’n Eddie Castelin

I just love Cap’n Eddie, wish I lived closer to him. I know we’d be good friends. He loves teaching woodturning to others and has all kinds of tips, tricks and other woodturning secrets.

Although he can tell you all about the best and most expensive tools for woodturning. Often he’ll share a method of doing something almost for free. That is, if your handy and you can follow his instructions.

Often times he has some of his woodturning tools and jigs for sale. Do him and yourself a favor and send the guy a few bucks so he can keep cranking out these videos and we can learn from him.

Learn How to Make a $2 Sharpening
Jig for Your Woodturning Tools

In this video Eddie shows us how to make a $2 sharpening jig for your gouges and bowl woodturning tools, a tool that gives you the fingernail grind or elsworth grind. He shares everything you need to make it your self, or you can get on from him for about $20 bucks.

Now this is just one part of the Oneway Wolverine Grinding Jig, nonetheless, I think the part from Oneway is 80 bucks and is called the Vari-Grind Attachment.

Basically Eddie is Showing you how to make something like this:

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WoodTurner Eddie Castelin Turns a Pepper Mill with Wood Lathe

When it comes to wood turning and woodturners, Captain Eddie was one of the first characters that I learned from online. Just go to youtube and type in his name, you’ll find a ton of Captain Eddie Videos.

I used my first wood lathe around 45 years ago in high school, I know…. that’s a long time ago. I can’t remember much about woodturning from high school but I remember making some candle holders and maybe a lamp …like most high school kids we screwed around more than we tried to learn anything. But I remember that big ole lathe whirling away …..it was a little intimidating!

I got sick of the last 10 years, can’t do the things I did before. Physically I’m a mess, but I thought I might be able to turn a log into a bowl, branch into a lamp and surprisingly the projects are legion. That means many 🙂

I wanted to start a site to share my learning experience. Tons of questions, what should I use, what’s good, what works, why do I have to spend so much money ….Captain Eddie set me straight on that. You really don’t have to spend a ton, just watch!

Here’s a quick Captain Eddie Video to get you started. Want to learn how to get started on a pepper mill…. check this out!

What Is Your Personal Shine Juice “Secret Recipe”