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JW_Halverson:
The smell of warm beeswax...mmmmm.   It makes a nice looking finish on hardwoods if you really take your time sanding and then burnishing the wood. 

HatchA:

--- Quote from: JW_Halverson on November 16, 2010, 04:30:51 pm ---The smell of warm beeswax...mmmmm.   It makes a nice looking finish on hardwoods if you really take your time sanding and then burnishing the wood. 

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Sweet!!  Friend of mine keeps bees and gave me four cans of his own beeswax (shoe polish tins).  Was wondering if it'd be suitable for sealing a bow with.  I know it's a great polish/finish, but wasn't sure about handling the flex of the lims etc.

Do you think it could be used over snakeskin on a bow?

Marc St Louis:
I mix it with about 30% P jelly for use as a string wax and it works quite well

sadiejane:
the swedes mix 1 part beeswax to 2 parts walnut oil(melted together) for wood curing. might work as well on bows.
made some and tho its does set up its quite workable as is, or can be heated a bit.
have been hand rubbing it into an osage orange bow i just finished as someone else told me
it would slow down the natural darkening process of osage. this one is an experiment, see if that actually happens.
if so may use it to make patterns on the back of other osage bows.

Pat B:
Sadiejane, unless you eliminate or block the UV rays of the sun the osage will darken.

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