Teak treatment for steering wheel

[mhember]

My better half having spent several hours removing generations of gunky varnish from our lovely teak steering wheel (from our 50 year old Seadog 30 Black Dog), it is now bare teak and looks great.
We are reflecting on what best to coat it with - regular doses of linseed oil, deks olje, shellac..... want to avoid yacht varnish again.
It is in a tented cockpit so not entirely open to the weather; we don't like thick / glossy varnish much and don't mind the occasional need to re-coat.

What do people think?

 

[Caer Urfa]

Four coats of International Woodskin

 

[doug748]

Try Danish Oil first, if you don't get on with it then it would be easy to follow Caer Urfa's suggestion later.

Danish Oil dries, so you can handle it but is quite fragile so in the elements it will start to mottle as it begins to break down. The secrets are twofold: to keep it covered, a mop cap type thing of circular construction with elasticated sides would be the thing (if your enclosure is up this would not be needed) and, secondly, to give it a regular wipe down with new oil - this takes seconds but, obviously you would not do it if you wanted to use the wheel soonish.

If your wheel is as I picture it, then there is nothing that will set it off better than Danish Oil. It soaks into the timber, enhances the colour yet leaves the grain visible. It is quite durable on a day to day basis but does need that little bit of looking after.

I used to have a 5 foot long teak tiller which I treated like this, a lovely thing.

 

[mhember]

Thanks very much for the suggestions; having done a tester on another bit of teak and with some good advice elsewhere, we are going with the international woodskin and initial results look great.....