This past summer my wife Ingrid and I, Bill White, bought Lin-Speed, Inc. from Ingrid's parents who have run the business for the past twenty years.  We are happy to carry on the tradition of Lin-Speed.  We use the same formula, we will continue with outstanding customer support and we agree that Lin-Speed is the best finish for gunstocks and all fine wood work, new and old. 

Over fifty years ago George Brothers invented Lin-Speed and he wrote the following passage about his outstanding product.  I have tried to reword the passage in more modern language but finally realized that Mr. Brothers said it best.  So here is Lin-Speed, in words of George Brothers himself.

 

 It has been said that a linseed oil finish has no substitute in producing a genuine oil finish. "GB" Lin-Speed is a laboratory perfection of linseed oil. "GB" Lin-Speed is not a concoction. It is in fact, linseed oil refined to the point that the oil acquires the admirable qualities of good body and rapid dry. Ordinary linseed oil never really dries. The "GB" Lin-Speed refinement process removes the non-drying linseed parts (called Foots).

Properly applied, and there is nothing difficult about that, the final wood finish, which will be a genuine oil finish, will have no equal in imparting the desired results to a valued gunstock. "GB" Lin-Speed has the refractive index for best showing the changing pattern of grain and color. This completely transparent oil gives wood grain a desirable depth and precludes the need for a separate filler. No wonder that a "GB" Lin-Speed oil finish is so tough against wear and the elements. Just think how tough inlaid linoleum is. Such linoleum is made by the combining of suitable linseed oil with an aggregate, in a manner somewhat like the way concrete gains its strength from adding cement to an aggregate of gravel and sand, which reinforces the hardened result.

With "GB" Lin-Speed oil finish, this fully drying linseed oil is added to the wood and it is the wood fiber itself that provides the aggregate to reinforce the hardened finish. That is why the oil finish must be in the wood itself, why it must not be sealed out of the wood by previously applied materials, and why the finish film should be limited in thickness out in the open above the surface of the finished wood. Any greater durability, even if it were available, would not be necessary. It has been observed many times that the properly applied "GB" Lin-Speed oil finish will enable the wood it protects to withstand bad weather even long after the metal parts of the same gun have rusted.

The "GB" Lin-Speed oil finish is the only type of finish readily restored after very hard use. It can be freshened up in selected areas or over the entire stock by periodic applications in very limited amounts of just a drop or two evened out with the fingers where required.
The "GB" Lin-Speed oil finish has proved itself in all situations. Next time you look at your gun, ask yourself if it wouldn't look better with a genuine "GB" Lin-Speed oil finish.