Cleaning your bokken.

Any reccomendations on how to clean and cleaning materials to use? A fellow student told me Murphy's Wood oil, but if a Bokken has a finish on it what does an oil do? Or am I totally missing the point?

Thanks in Advance.

Watch out for the bokken sanitation department. You never know when they might show up and do an inspection.

I never clean it. But I must add I do not use it very often. I do inspect it for splinters though.

Arjan

I clean mine by wacking it with vigor and against those of my dojo mates.

To just get the dust off, though, I do a simple cut in the air 300 times or so.

I use Old English oil after a light fine grain sanding proceeded by a rub down with a course hand towel. The towel removes dead skin which tends to adhere, the sanding removes splinters, and the oil helps protect the "fresh" wood.

Sean Constable wrote: Any reccomendations on how to clean and cleaning materials to use? A fellow student told me Murphy's Wood oil, but if a Bokken has a finish on it what does an oil do? Or am I totally missing the point?

Ummmm, if you're totally missing the point isn't that a jo?

Elizabeth Castor wrote: Ummmm, if you're totally missing the point isn't that a jo?

Not if the bokken is a Shibasen (no pointy bit)

Cleaning Bokken!!!???

Whatever next!!!

People will be washing their belts!!!!!!

In the past I've used Tung oil, or linseed oil (get the kind with no lead in it!).
I recently received a beautiful jo for my birthday (Yeah, my wife gave me a stick! for my birthday, though it is a very nice stick.
It's a very hard wood, and our head instructor, who does fine woodwork suggested a coat of lemon oil on it.

Si Wilson wrote: Cleaning Bokken!!!??? Whatever next!!!

Those blood stains just get so ugly, though!

Jon Harris wrote: Those blood stains just get so ugly, though!

That's not ugly....that's character

Bronson