I know exactly what you are talking about,  tallow, lanolin and gord
knows what rubbed into English beech which shrinks and cracks here in
Oz

	 

	The oldest softest nearly worn out plastic potscrubber - don't ask
for a new one as you will be told to break it in - from kitchen and
acetone (Diggers brand is usually available in ColesWorths) and a bit
of effort

	You wont get it all out as it has been baked in over the years

	Reoil with any oil that doesn't go rancid or the cracking and
shrinking will restart

	 

	Neil

----- Original Message -----
From: "paul womack" 
To:"Brent Kinsey" , "Tony Blanks" 
Cc:"OldTools" 
Sent:Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:07:45 +0100
Subject:Re: [OldTools] Cleaning blackened moulding planes?

 Brent Kinsey wrote:
 > Tony asks about the black on some English beech planes:
 >
 > The tallow being so thoroughly worked into the wood, it may not
come out short of scraping or sanding.

 I will admit to my ignorance of what the black is, but IME the black
built up I've encountered on planes
 here in the UK softens and comes off fairly easily using metholated
spirits.

 BugBear

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