Sample Pouch

The cheapest way to find out whether instant curing does what we say it does, on your own timber, in your own workshop.

What is in it

• Four sachets of Oslek LED Hardwax Oil
• A mini LED torch, with two batteries and a wrist strap
• Tinted safety glasses
• An applicator pad
• An instruction card and a torch user guide
• A cotton Oslek pouch to keep it all in

It is a complete kit rather than a few samples, which is the part people do not expect. The torch, the batteries and the glasses are all in there.

What you do with it

Sand a piece of the species you actually work with. Brush on a sachet with the pad. Pass the torch over it. The finish is hard. The whole loop takes under a minute, which is the point, and it is the part people do not quite believe until they have done it. Then put a fingernail in it, spill water on it, scuff it, and make your own mind up.

What it is for, and what it is not

Trials, sampling, showing a client, and small touch-ups. It is not a kit for doing a job with. The mini torch will cure a test piece, not a floor. For real work you want the 50W Handheld LED Torch, which has the output and the runtime for a day of joinery.

Testing colours as well

The sachets in this pouch are Clear. The Sample Pouch Deluxe adds coloured oil to the same kit. If you want to sample colours properly, in a quantity you can brush out across a decent sized board, the Taster Pack is the next step up, and the full range is on the LED Hardwax Oils page.

Test it indoors

The oil is 99.4% VOC free, with no solvent smell, so the kitchen table is a perfectly reasonable place to try it. It has also been tested to EN 71-3, the European toy safety standard, and we have set out what that does and does not mean on our page on whether hardwax oil is safe for children and pets.

Weighing Oslek against something else first? We have put it side by side with Osmo, Bona, Rubio Monocoat, Fiddes and Treatex, using each maker's own published data sheets, including where their product is the better buy.