Beeswax finish

[KLMoors]

Watch where you step back there Wade. It is easy to end up in a parallel internet.

[smylee grouch]

If a guy wanted to use beeswax for a finnish on black walnut, would you or could you or should you use a filler to fill the pores first?

[Acer Saccharum]

Well Y'all, I should have posted this question before I went and started oiling her down!

Precisely what the next rifle is for! We seem to always be searching for a reason to build 'nother one, and here ya go. Perfect excuse. Make your lady some ladles or kitchen tools to try out vinegar stain and beeswax. Just as 'test pieces' for your next gun project...

[Acer Saccharum]

I dunno, about really porous walnut. Some of it can be quite dense with small pores, and other pieces can be like a sponge.

You need to have bees on the land before you can get their wax. I don't know when European honey bees were brought here, sometime during the colonial period. I would think the wax would have been a highly sought after material.

[WadePatton]

Watch where you step back there Wade. It is easy to end up in a parallel internet.

So part of what i found out, treating wood last night, is that beeswax melts at 140-150 whereas paraffin wax melts around 90-100.  Big difference when you go dragging your finger through it too.   

Hmmm, next stock is Ash. porosity central