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Thanks again Michael, I've never used steel wool on wood before, I'll look for furniture grade. Any recommendations on what brush to use to apply the oil?

 I've been thinking, if that gun wax is thick like Kiwi shoe wax or car wax, I could spit shine it with a cotton ball and some water?

"Furniture grade" is OOOOO. There isn't much oil on Ophelia's neck so it won't take much rubbing. You'll know easy enough.
Use a lint free cloth...small piece of old t-shirt. Imagine just how far a drop of oil will go...I'm talking a very small amount and
wipe on in straight stokes. Dotn't be going over it as it starts getting tacky quick. It should be such a thin coat you wonder if you
got it on at all. About an hour or so lightly smooth it with the wool and put another very light coat on. Give it a day or two and lightly smooth it with the steel wool.
The wax is a liquid. Put a coat on, give it a second or two and wipe it.
 
Make sure you keep that steel wool away from everything else Grant. Those pup magnets will collect the loose particles and there will surely be those.
 
This isn't like doing a gun stock. You should be feeling like there was just no way to get any less amount of oil on per coat.
 
The cool thing is that you really can't screw up anything. At the worst you just have to start over. The best part of that is about the fourth time you have it down pat and a neck that is not going to be beat. IMO.
 
Some apply that oil with their finger. I don't and won't.
 
From what I've read of others that have trouble with oil is they simply put it on to thick and then it goes down-hill from there...won't dry...they fuss with it to much...get it contaminated and put another coat...
 
When you open the oil it has a foil seal- don't break it- poke a small hole in it. Easier to get a small amount and it also helps
the life of it. After you cap it turn it upside down.