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Making natural varnishes

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Jodocus:
I regularly make and use that type of varnish. Beeswax and resin, the rest is optional. The turpentine is the solvent naturally present in (and originally distilled from) the resin.

The mixture will stay soft and waxy for a while, but at some point it will dry hard. How long that is depends on temp and humidity and most of all the mixture and the qualiy of the resin. It is just not the kind of time we are used to from artificial varnishes or linseed oil with chemical siccatives. It's more like weeks, easily many of them. But it does dry hard eventually.

 ;)

Jodocus:
PS: the wax is in the mix to keep it from crackling.

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