Yes Eric, I also have some of the Liberon products. I used their "finishing oil" for a while and then the formula seemed to have changed and it would not hand rub as well for me. I still have some of their pure tung oil I got about 15 years ago and I believe it is a best quality type of tung. It is very light in colour and quite thick.

Using the ball of stocking to hold the alkanet powder sounds like a good trick. I'll try it next time I make some red oil. Aussie Soap also have bags to hold herbs and powders for infusing.

I tried making a different type of bag to hold the powder and I didn't like it as the oil could not penetrate all thru the powder in the bag and I could not stir it or shake it enough to get the infusing working properly. I got a very good infusion by stirring the loose powder/granules in a jar but that also makes filtering out the residue harder.

Gabe