Wooden worktops, I wanted a natural finish!

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Just had my oak wortops installed, and was looking for a very natural, retro feel. I have a 1930's home.

After all the oiling, what I have is super shiny.......

NOT the finish I was after..... I want dull, matt, woody and workaday!

Does anyone know what I mean?

Help!!

personally, id go into an antiques place and act very interested in antiques to gain favour ask about restoring something oak?
they might have good knowledge of a quick / easy way to get the effect your after?

Just sand them down and oil them again with Danish oil or similar. It sounds like the excess oil wasn't wiped off soon enough. Certainly salvageable

I bet they'll calm down. Mine looked super shiny too initially, they're lovely now!

Do you think Mineral Oil would achieve the look I'm after?

What sort of oil were they oiled with?

nooooo! don't use danish oil. leaves a shiny plasticky looking finish and it turned our oak worktops orange. we have just sanded down our worktops and refinished them with osmo polyx hardwax oil in a matt finish. they now look lovely and i will never use anything else on them. also much nicer and easier to use than danish or linseed oil.

osmo do a top oil which i think is the same thing in smaller quantity especially for worktops. lots of people on here reccommended the osmo.

Liberon Finishing Oil has been used on them. It doesn't say what mixture of oils it contains.......(sold widely on Amazon)

I don't know why, but I had just assumed my wooden work tops would have the raw feel of old butchers blocks......but without quite so many cuts....and the blood, of course!

Oh dear!

I use ordinary vegetable oil on my wooden work surfaces. It gives a subtle sheen but is not shiny.

I would suggest leaving it a few months to see if the shine fades, and/or giving them a scrub with an abrasive cleaning paste.

Just use the worktops without any care and put hot cups on them. They will soon look "lived in". I had beech worktops and they went black around the sink and looked manky for years. I now have Getacor and am not afraid to put a coffee cup on my work surface. I would never have a wooden worktop again.

I had this on my worktops as the guy who made them had thought I'd want a shiny finish. I didn't, I wanted matt, so he told me to sand them by hand and then use a different oil on it. This didn't work as I couldn't sand out all the old oil, so he had to sand them again with his machine and I re-oiled after and they were absolutely fine then. I'm sorry but I can't remember the name of the new oil that I used, but it was very matt. In short, I think you'll have to have them sanded off with a machine and then re-do with a suitable matt oil.

Eeeek!