Timber Framers Guild Forums General General Forum Questions Blue moss on pine beams

Hello,

Sunlight will do the trick over time. I've never known of an ugly piece of intact wood given time. This may change through as many of the works with coated surfaces get on in age. Of all of these transparent or semi-transparent finishes oil will be the least damaging. If you experienced to much yellowing this would come from the particular oil used and not oil in general. Perhaps it was boiled linseed oil for example which will yellow excessively and should not be used as a transparent finish on wood other than darker colored ones. Just be content in the knowledge that in twenty years, hopefully a short span in the live of this structure, the untreated wood will have mellowed in color, everything blending together nicely and only getting better with more time whereas in the case of any transparent finish, the opposite is the case. It starts out looking fine often but it's all down hill after that.

Greetings,

Don Wagstaff