hi i'm richard craig i recommend uh oiling all black wood instruments oboes and clarinets with almond oil and i use a turkey feather which are quite hard to get hold of but you can always get them from me so here's how we go um i'll show you how much oil to put on the feather first and then i'll show you how to put the oil into the instrument it's very easy quick doesn't take much time here we go so this is almond oil and i'm just going to get enough oil on the feather i'm just spreading it around now what i'm doing here is actually putting too much oil on but i'll remove the excess in a minute and i'll show you how so the oil is nice and distributed through the feather now if i pull it further through my fingers like this you can see how the oil is pooling in my fingers i'll just wipe that away get rid of that we don't want that so now we should have a feather with enough oil on it to coat the inside of the instrument but not enough for the oil to run into the holes so for actually putting it putting the oil into the instrument all we need to do is twist the feather in like this see it come through the top keep going around in the same direction don't change directions when you're twisting it and now we've got lots of oil here on the end grain which is good we just give that a bit of a rub in there and that's all you need to do simple as that the top joint on the elbow is the most vulnerable so that's that's the one that you really should oil but it doesn't harm to do the other joints as well and now these are feathers you can reuse many times so you just have to get one of these ziploc bags squeeze all the air out and that'll be okay for many uses and you when you have a new instrument you should oil it once a month for the first six months and after that really it just needs oiling when it gets serviced