Can anyone recomend a simple wax finish for a newl tung oil bowl. Something thats easly available Please.
Thanks Keith
Wax Finish for TUNG OIL
Oct 21, 2004
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Any furniture paste wax. Trewax is nice, Minwax is nice, or you can get harder stuff like higher carnuba content, or softer with more bees by mail-order. Never used 'em, but some say the microcrystalline types are clearer.
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would ensure that the Tung is fully polymerized by the time the waxgets there. Oil is a solvent for wax, and it leaks through from underneathin sunlight.
Thanks George
Keith
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> Ordering would ensure that the Tung is fully polymerized by the time the > wax> gets there. Oil is a solvent for wax, and it leaks through from > underneath> in sunlight.
I have used a tung oil finish for years on furniture and now often with turning. I find plain old minwax and Johnson's paste wax just fine. They hold up forever and give a nice sheen. Quite frankly, I've bough expensive waxes and can't see any difference.
Earl
MinWax is as cheap as anything and pretty darned durable. We rejuvinated the hardwood floors in a rental we used to own. They looked great the night we did it and still did when we sold the house 1-1/2 years later. They did have a finish before our waxing but probably 50 year old varnish that had been carpeted over.
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