Thread: Finishing a staircase

We have just finished stripping a 1890s yr old staircase balaustrade - handrail, spindles and also the strings.
We think it's oregon. It's a softwood. (Inner sydney terrace house).

We want to keep the natural wood look. It's beautiful old timber. and a hell of a lot of work to strip!

My partner wants to Feast watson floorshine it - which seems to me to be a bit too much like putting polyeurathane on it... sitting on the surface.

I want to use something that will bond with the timber and will create a silky smooth finish if I wet and dry it.

I've done this with Organoil Clear Finishing Oil on hardwoods with a lovely silky finish (and not too much work!) but not on softwoods.

I like the sound of Ubeaut but I can't get a lot of heat into the polishing as obviously I can't lathe it...

We're concerned about something like ubeaut that the handrail, with lots of hand contact will discolour quickly.

I've done a search - can't see anything to answer my dilemma... Can any one help?!

thanks,