Burnish/Bone Stock Before or After First Oil Coat?

[McJames]

I finished scraping my stock, and stained with ferric nitrate, and am going to use Beck’s oil. I was reading about burnishing stocks on other threads/forums, and the consensus seemed to be that the correct time to do so was after applying the ferric nitrate. If I burnish before applying the first coat of oil, won’t I seal off the pores and prevent the oil from soaking in properly?

[Pukka Bundook]

Rightly or wrongly, I burnish after giving the stock a good slopping of linseed cut with turpentine.
The oil makes the fibres stay down when burnished.
Others are more experts than me, so don't go by that I do alone!