Pure Tung Oil Finishes & Finishing Tools - Shelter Institute
Pure Tung Oil Finishes & Finishing Tools - Shelter Institute

Pure Tung Oil

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100% pure tung oil. Hard-drying, food safe, and honest. Nothing else in the can.

Best For

  • Food-contact surfaces
  • Pure-oil traditionalists
  • Cutting boards and counters

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In stock at 873 US-1, Woolwich, ME 04579 · Usually ready in 24 hours

In stock at 873 US-1, Woolwich, ME 04579

Pure Tung Oil

Available for pickup

873 US-1, Woolwich, ME 04579

Usually ready in 24 hours

873 U.S. 1
Woolwich ME 04579
United States

+12074427938

RMP Pure Tung Oil is 100% pure, cold-pressed tung oil, with no hexane or additives, for a matte, water-resistant finish on wood, countertops and cutting boards and on unglazed stone, concrete and brick.

Once fully cured it's food-contact safe and meets FDA food-contact standards, so it suits butcher block, cutting boards and charcuterie trays. On dense woods, thin it 1:1 with Citrus Solvent or Pine Solvent so it soaks in, or buy it already thinned as Half & Half. It feels dry in 2 to 4 days, partly cures around day 10 and fully cures in up to 30 days. A light coat rubbed on tool steel also makes a fine rust inhibitor, which is how a can of it earns its keep in our shop.

RMP Finishes started in 1993 as D.O. Siever Products, a side business selling pigments that grew out of Dwayne Siever's antique restoration work in a renovated barn in Pennsylvania, and its Real Milk Paint followed in 1995. The family-owned company moved its manufacturing to Hohenwald, Tennessee, in 2014, and in 2025 it changed its name from The Real Milk Paint Co. to RMP Finishes.

  • Options: 1 oz sample; 8 oz; 16 oz; 32 oz; gallon
  • Oil: 100% pure cold-pressed tung oil, no hexane or additives
  • Coverage: about 400 sq ft per gallon, 100 per quart, 50 per pint (undiluted)
  • Thinning: 1:1 with Citrus or Pine Solvent on dense woods; 2 parts solvent to 1 part oil for refresher coats
  • Dry and cure: dry to the touch in 2 to 4 days, partial cure around day 10, full cure in up to 30 days
  • Food contact: safe once fully cured; meets FDA food-contact standards
  • Made in: Tennessee, USA by RMP Finishes, from tung oil sourced in China

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