I don't think lemon oil, or other oils, will be a fingerprint magnet. At least not on unfinished wood. Don't know about varnished wood because I don't have much of that. "Norwegian Wood" is lots of unfinished "blond" wood like pine, birch, spruce. Back when I was working as a hotel chambermaid we would scour the "raw" wood coffee tables with lots and lots of either some kind of oil or green soap (is that what Murphy's soap is?). Which we used depended on what the boss believed in, or had bought cheap. Either way the point was to kind of saturate the wood with it so you got a patina that went a mm or 2 deep and that was easy to clean -- dirt, cig ashes, wine spills, fingerprints ... they all just lifted right off. The soap or oil layer was almost like Scotchguard or Teflon. But of course, if it's finished wood then that won't work the same.




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