Hello all.
I've been gone from the forum for a long time. And now I have a problem that I can't solve.
Here’s the background for my question: I turned some small bowls for cereal out of cured Aspen, of which I sold two at a Craft Show in Fun Valley Colorado last August. They were finished with a few coats of Watco Danish Oil, and then buffed with White Diamond and a Clean Wheel. They were cured for at least two weeks prior to buffing. They were finished and dated Jan and March 2015, respectively.
I received a call this morning from the Gentleman who purchased them… (he lives in South Texas.) He said that his wife went to their RV to get something from the cabinet, and when she opened the cabinet, the odor of the Danish Oil nearly knocked her over. He asked me what he could do to take away the odor. He says that he’s afraid that if they eat out of them, that they might get sick from the finish.
I’ve never had anything like that occur before this. I've used the same polymerizing finish for many years on utility bowls, and have 6 bowls in my kitchen right now that we use all the time. I have two vases of Aspen on my shelf now, that I finished the same way just last month, and there isn’t an odor from either one of them. And those two bowls had no odor when I sold them in August. I’m not sure what to tell him at this point.
Do you know of anything that might explain why these bowls began to smell?