Homemade Cutting for Food Bowls

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Organic Bee wax?

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

What are the specifications for "organic bee wax"?

Re: Organic Bee wax?

Howie

natural might be easier. I want a product that has not been modified or treated through any chemical process.

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Bill Howatt

Seems backwards but roughly 20% beeswax and 80% mineral oil.

Heat in a double-boiler until melted and mixed. Use double-boiler to minimize fire hazard! Pour into jars and let solidify. You can sell/give away a little container with each sale or gift for finish touchups.

Don't see why you can't add a little scent to the mix but I've never done it.

Bill

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Doc Green

The details of preparing the mineral oil/beeswax finish is given on my website. From the home page select Articles Index and then look under Sanding andFinishes.

http://www.docgreenwoodturner.com/mineraloil.html

Re: Homemade Cutting for Food Bowls *LINK*

David Walser

Doc Green's article gives good written directions on how to make the wax/oil mixture. For those who'd prefer to learn by watching, Mike Peace has a good how-to video on YouTube.

He also has a video showing you to use the same basic technique to make an abrasive paste -- similar to EEE-Ultra Shine, Dr. Kirk's Scratch FREEE, or the others on the market. Basically, all you do is add the abrasive powder of your choice to the wax/oil mix.

Here's a link to Mike's video on making the basic wax/oil combo:


Wax/Oil video

Re: Organic Bee wax?

John K Jordan

>>>I want a product that has not been modified or treated through any chemical process.

You can get yellow or white beeswax. Pure beeswax is naturally yellow so it is bleached to make it white. One way to bleach is with the sun but a more common method is with chemicals. Without knowing which method was used just use the yellow.

You can buy beeswax from Amazon. The large beekeeping suppliers also sell it. A reliable source is from a local beekeeper.

Every few years I melt and filter the cappings wax from my beehives. I don't mix it with thinner and oil/varnish to make finish but use the wax directly, rubbing it onto the wood or melting it into the wood with friction or a heat gun. I put it on a couple of "decoy" peafowl eggs just a couple of days ago. We use decoy eggs to entice birds to lay their eggs where we want them. This is a peafowl decoy egg next to a decorative wooden chicken-size egg made from Olive:

JKJ

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Dennis in Southern Oregon

Be sure to use organic scent!

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Ron Bauer

For the wax part of the blend I use half beeswax and half carnauba wax. The Cwax is somewhat harder giving a superior sheen to the rubbed finish. It is also food safe, being what makes M&M's melt in your mouth not in your hand.

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mfoster vermontel.net

Just find a local beekeeper. They are likely to have plenty of wax. I have a 5 gallon bucket of it. Totally natural. Not a lot of industrial farming around here, so no pesticides get into it. Totally organic.

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Karl_TN

It's my understanding that there's no such think as organic honey or organic bees wax because you can't control where the bees fly to get nectar and pollen.

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Michael Foster

Well that's true. Bees do roam, but usually stick within about a couple miles radius from the hive. There is no farming of any scale, except backyard gardens, within that distance from me, so I feel comfortable saying mine keep free of the pesticides and chemicals used in industrial agriculture.