A friend of mine is having a TV armoir built out of cherry. The guy building it said he will only finish it with tung oil, and that the piece will need to be refinished on a periodic basis. His comment was that Thomas Moser does his furniture that way also. Claimed that people even send their furniture back to Moser to have them reoiled. Now, me being somewhat new at this hobby and a user of new technology I would think this to be a little troublesome.

Questions:

1) Do people finish things like this?
2) Do you really have to re-oil the piece occasionally?
3) Would this be practical for an armoir?
4) Is this reapplying of oil something the normal (non woodworker) can do?

Up until now I've only used BLO, poly and shellack, none of which need to be reaplied.