My experience with linseed oil hasn't been all that good. Years ago I refinished a rifle stock with 5 or 6 coats of linseed oil, rubbed in with a cloth and then rubbed with fine steel wool, allowing several days between coats. Almost immediately it "bled" little drops of oil? and tended to be sticky, especially in humid weather. I also finished a maple butcherblock dining room table with linseed oil cut with turps on the advice of the dealer; not a happy outcome. Since then I've used Watco products with good results; I'm sure that there are other good products. BTW, "boiled" linseed oil isn't really boiled, it has various metallic dryers added which probably make it unsafe for food surfaces.
Fine Woodworking is a wonderful source of finishing information. Those guys and gals know their stuff.
Hmm, my lovely Fortes could use some TLC.
Great forum! For what its worth, my Fortes are powered by a HK 590i. Its 45wpc are more than enough, and the tone controls with variable hinge points are the way such things should be done. Plus it has a tone control defeat switch, and a high-pass filter to safeguard the Fortes from really low freq stuff. Playing vinyl on my AR ES-1 with the last Shure V15 cart the Fortes make a lovely noise.