I buy pure carnauba wax in lumps at my local hardware shop and don't mix it with anything. If you can only find flakes, melt them into a lump which you can apply to the buffing wheel. As Jon says most of the commercial waxes are mixtures. Try a lump of pure beeswax and you'll see how soft it is.
Head only, you don't want wax of any sort on the shanks, just peg-paste if you use it. David At 05:15 -0400 27/10/14, Jon Murphy wrote: >Disagree, beeswax is not too soft - it all depends on how you make >it. Carnauba is the harder generically, but all commercially sold >waxes are mixtures. I make my own beeswax from flakes, several >mixtures with oils of different concentrations, for my wood >turnings. One of my beeswax mixtures is harder, effectively, than >the commercial carnauba I have. Admittedly, if I could find a >reasonable supplier for carnauba flakes I could make that in varying >grades. > >OK, now to agree with David. The carnauba is harder - but the actual >end result is dependent on the mixture of wax flakes and solvent >that makes the actual wax in the pot. Buy it off the shelf and you >may not be getting what you think you are getting. BTW, after saying >the above I Googled and I think I can get some carnauba flakes >reasonably - will have to try them for my finishes. > >Best, Jon > > >On 10/26/2014 7:06 PM, David Van Edwards wrote: >>Carnauba wax. It's the hardest vegetable wax and melts well above >>blood heat so doesn't fingermark. Apply with buffing wheel and NO >>beeswax, which is much too soft. >> >>David >> >>At 16:25 -0400 26/10/14, Paul Daverman wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I am wondering what most builders use for finish on the heads of the >>> friction pegs. I believe Lundberg recommended simply applying with >>> beeswax and buffing. I am curious if this is what others are doing and >>> also why beeswax in this case as opposed to, say, shellac or the such. >>> >>> Thanks for you input. >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>>To get on or off this list see list information at >>>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- The Smokehouse, 6 Whitwell Road, Norwich, NR1 4HB England. Telephone: + 44 (0)1603 629899 Website: http://www.vanedwards.co.uk
