Thanks for the reminder Colin. Whereas I was talking about adapting household items for simple bore cleaning and oiling, you do have an excellent point about polishing. Cotton buds are nowhere near tight enough for that specialist task. Horses for courses and all that.
Cheers, Steve PS: <SOAPBOX ON> I predict the need for a central buyer to supply pipers with rarer stuff. Why ? Judging by the difficulty I had finding a chemist with retail bottles of liquid paraffin (most restricting themselves to pharmacy Winchesters for fear of abuse) it might easily join the prescription list. And as proper hardware stores (forget DIY sheds) rapidly become a vague memory, whither then ? Wholesalers are naturally only interested in big orders. <SOAPBOX OFF> To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
