 Oh, no, absolutely not. This is great for two-year-old, five-year-old, ten-year-old. I mean, really, the beauty about the oil is it will, by nature of it not being a solvent-based product that will harden and flake off, you can apply this over an existing surface rust. There's an argument to be made that it may even stick better to a light level of surface rust than to, like, a freshly painted frame. Just