Improve your Paste Wax in MINUTES || Woodworking Tips & Tricks
Improve your Paste Wax in MINUTES || Woodworking Tips & Tricks
I show how to IMPROVE your PASTE WAX in MINUTES. This simple additive will have you wondering why you have not done this sooner. This has become my go to finish with my woodworking and woodturning projects. It is also great to reduce friction on any woodworking sleds or jigs. Lastly this paste wax wood finish also helps prevent rust on your cast iron table tops.
So come take a minute and see how you can improve that boring old paste wax you have been having to race to buff out before it dries and becomes sticky.
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Intro music made me throw up in my mouth a little.
What exactly is a linseed anyway
👍Is it possible to cover wooden dishes with this wax?
How much does this affect dry time of the paste wax?
Its not so great on pancakes
You know what else works? Peanut butter
Nice!!!
Your thumb is pushing 6” !
Paste wax is just wax + oil.
Adding blo makes it a thinner better penetrating paste.
I usually for a soft paste will use 50g of beeswax to 150g of walnut oil or blo depending on what the paste wax will be used for.
Just dump the ingredients into a cheap or unwanted pot and heat until the wax melts then pour it into a glass/metal container.
Very easy to make customised waxes for your projects. More wax in the ratio makes it harder less makes it softer.
Consistently of peanut butter! Works great for me.
Great video and awesome tips in the comment section, as well as some arseholes – I’m not sure what the purpose is of trolling a woodworking channel that’s just trying to help ya… 🤔
Bur anyway.. Thanks Brad! 👍
Does this tip add any color to a finish wood project?
“Not completely scientific”???? How about not scientific in any sense of the word???
Linseed oil. I was half expecting vaseline or ky🙊
Was wondering if I could do this – thanks for making the vid 😁
lose the sarcasm
Fake. You can see the strings. 😆
Peanut butter is what it looks like. Thanks for the tip! What about tung oil?
And you can also use SCJohnson’s . It is far better.
Your thumb is moving 6”. No wonder the sled moves the same !!
I heat my wax then apply it quickly which gives me time to buff it out kind of like waxing a car in fact sometimes i use the car buffer
Doesn’t that leave an oily residue?
The wax and the combination with linseed may be thinned with paint thinner, which is the same thing a diesel fuel (without any additives,) "coal oil," and "lamp oil." Mineral spirits same thing.
There is oil/fat, and then there is water. They do not mix, except in salad dressings.
Amazing. Will have to try it. Need more Brad’s workbench stickers.
I like to mix a little Astro Glide in mine.
Man you don’t apply the wax and just leave it as is. In order to offer benefits as a lubricant it needs time to harden then it must be buffed. Wax, wait until it hazes over then buff with a clean soft cloth.
Thanks for the great tips, you may also want to consider Using a heat gun and warm wax while on surface after applying and you will get superb results and penetration.
pumpkin pie consistency
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Perfect. I was just wondering about this
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Love the transitional videos. Nice presentation.
Wax on. Wax off
How would mineral spirits work?
Hi Brad, if I want to use this paste for smoothing my baby book shelf wood board, would that be okay? Considering kids may touch and lock the surface sometimes 😂
I put 14 coats of this compound on a walking stick that was a debarked small dog wood tree I cut down ages ago when I was a kid…my dad used to mix BLO and MinWax. That walking stick survived a car fire. Scraped off the char, polyeuethane after that…its over 35 years old. I may remove the poly and just 50/50 BLO and mineral spirits the daylights out of it after watching this video😂😂there is no way that stick would ever rot without severe water exposure…no way bacteria or mold could survive the mummifications they’ve experienced😂😂
Boeing’s Beoshield is better than wax because, once dry, it won’t transfer to subsequent work or inhibit finishing ability. Even small amounts of wax under a finish can cause fisheyes so be very sure you’ve really rubbed out any wax on surfaces where it could transfer to other work.
Hi. I need your help. I have raw steel camprie legs and I need to protect them but keep that matte industrial look with no sheen or shine. Will doing this method create thus protection and keep it industrial Matt looking for me. I’m worried. I don’t want to ruin the raw steel flat matte look.
Wow that was some epic stirring!
peanut butter cookie dough
Would this work with a danish oil finish and Johnson’s paste wax? Or would the other additives mess with the wax?
I live in NZ and we don’t have much to choose from as far as paste wax goes. All the ones I’ve found are beeswax based. Is this ok for table saw tops?
Just bought an aluminum top jobsite table saw and looking to use Johnsons paste wax or something like it. How would your mixture work on aluminum ? I’m wanting it protected and slippery.
I wonder if you can mix it with danish oil?
I’ll probably sound dumb asking this but I’ll ask does this make it waterproof and if it does does it eventually need to be applied every so often?
You think mineral oil would act as a good substitute for the boiled linseed oil?
This paste is terribly expensive here in Malaysia.
Could I use beeswax instead?
Where did you complete your PHD, because you are a wax DOCTOR!
Past Wax already contains BLO… You’re just thinning it a wee bit more… Which works much better for this particular task… Often adjusting the ratio will better suit it to a particular task… Paste Wax is wonderful stuff… Traditional Paste Wax simply contains Beeswax, BLO, & Mineral Spirits or Turpentine… You can make it from scratch yourself, and adjust the ratio o’ any o’ the 3 ingredients to better suit, a specific task… To make it a better Lubricant, increase BLO(Like you did in the video)… If you want it to dry into a harder surface finish, Increase Beeswax & Mineral Spirits…
Great suggestion! One might also use pure flaxseed oil which is BLO without the chemical drying additives.