16 oz pint
Pure Tung Oil
Covers about 50 sq ft
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Grown, pressed and bottled on the Gulf Coast
Fine woodworking deserves the finest tung oil.
Every other tung oil sold in America is imported — often hexane-extracted, and years old before it reaches your bench. Ours is pressed from nuts we grew ourselves, dated on the can, and guaranteed in writing.
Certified September 3, 2026
Our tung oil is a USDA Certified Biobased Product.
An independent laboratory tested it for the USDA BioPreferred® Program and measured its biobased content at 100%: all of it from plants, none of it from petroleum.
We grow it. We press it. We stand behind it.
A family business. These are the people in it.
Our family has spent years on the art and the science of growing tung trees and turning their fruit into an oil worth your labor. The same people walk the rows, run the press, and sign the guarantee that comes in the can — which is the whole reason we can tell you where your oil came from, and when.
The crew and the orchard dogs, between the rows. 
Checking a branch together, two generations of the same crew.
The claim
“The finest” is a big claim.
Here is what it stands on.
All other tung oil sold in the U.S. is imported. It is frequently extracted with hexane, traded in bulk, repackaged by a company that never saw the seed, and several years old by the time you open it. Freshness is not a marketing word for a curing oil — it is the difference between an even finish and a sticky one.
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Grown on our farm
Every batch starts with tung trees grown and harvested on our own farms along the Gulf Coast. Not bought on the bulk market. Not blended from four continents.
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Screw-pressed for purity
Ripe tung nuts are collected, prepped, and mechanically pressed. No hexane, no solvents, no chemical extraction at any stage.
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Lab-verified
Every batch is backed by a certificate of analysis from an independent testing laboratory, referenced by the batch number on your container.
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Dated and traceable
Every container carries its harvest date, its press date, and a signed guarantee of purity. You can tell how old your oil is by reading the label.
One crop, one season
We only sell what our own trees make.
Which is why there is a limit to it, and why the can tells you which year you are holding.
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Harvest
From our orchard
A nut, a screw press, and nothing else.
Ripe nuts are gathered from our own rows, hulled, cracked and mechanically pressed. No hexane. No solvent recovery stage. No blending of pressed and solvent-extracted streams. The oil that comes out of the press is the oil that goes in the can, and the can tells you when both happened.
- 100%
- Mechanically pressed
- 0
- Chemical solvents used
- 2,000+
- Years wood has been finished this way
The shop
Start here
Three sizes cover most of what comes through our door. The rest of our products are just a click away.
In someone else’s shop
Rick Feldman has been doing this a long time.
RGF Woodworks — and a wall of clamps earned one at a time.
Tallahassee Tung Oil has become my go-to choice for bringing out the best in every piece I create. It has truly elevated the quality of my work, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything else.
Made with it
Work that came back to us
Guitars, barn-wood dressers, butcher block, a tribal court building's fifty-year-old cedar. Sent in by the people who made them.
From the journal
What we know about the stuff
Written by the people who press it, for the people who use it.
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USDA BioPreferred Certification
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Greg Frost Gulf Coast Tung Oil LLC gulfcoasttungoil@gmail.com Gulf Coast Tung Oil LLC dba Tallahassee Tung Oil Earns USDA Certified Biobased Product Label TALLAHASSEE, FL.
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