Made some transfer wax

[Beladran]

Made 10 4oz and 10 1oz cans of transfer wax today at lunch while the wife was away

This should be enough to last me a little while!

 

[mtlctr]

Holy cow man, how long you xpect to live? seriously dude, that's alot of wax.

 

[ETHELBERT]

Would you be willing to share the recipe? thank you Ethelbert

 

[Marrinan]

Sure hope you got a good recipe....

 

[DakotaDocMartin]

This should be enough to last me a little while!

I'd say 20 years to life!

 

[sam]

that's enough transfer wax to pass down to generations a two hundred years from now.

Recipe: 50/50 beeswax and tallow is common

 

[Beladran]

Well I have a good bit of experience with waxes from years of reloading an making my own blend of bullet Lube.
It's a mix of bees wax, tallow, olive oil, canada balsam, an small amount of carnauba. So far my .3mm mechanical penicil draws on it like a champ. I don't really have a good way to describe it other than or goes on with a clean look an gives a light matte/satin look on the metal. I might give out a couple of the small tons if any one wants to test it out.
If the performance sucks then I will turn it into bullet lube

 

[Brian Marshall]

Sounds similar to a mix I use. In two grades. One for summer, one for winter.

You may find that if you made it to work well in winter - it might not work so well when it's over 80 degrees in your shop. (We've been up to 107 outdoors a few times)


Made about 50 tins of it. Gave it all away to students over the years.

'ceptin' my personal stash, of course...


A lotta work if you do it right.


Brian

 

[sam]

Lynton said his recipe depended on whether he was in the south, the north, or out west where it's dry.

Here's the tin of his original transfer wax, given to him by Winston Churchill. He said the darkness of the mix is not coloring, but a result of years of a buildup of dust and grime.

 

[Beladran]

People would be surprised the effect cliamate has on wax.

 

[Jared Eason]

James, you might need to make each one if those cans a different recipe. You know how our climate is in Mississippi, dry , humid, humid - cold , humid - hot, cold, hot, wet, and this is all in one day. Haha

 

[Marrinan]

I tried to make my own from a recipe in an "Art of Engraving" book published in 1903 (mostly lettering related) bought a pound block of bees wax but could not find tallow in South Georgia. Experiment with lard, clean bacon grease, beef lard, carving waxes and molding waxes of various colors-Bought Sam's could not be happier. Winter or summer. Fred

 

[Beladran]

Went from mid 70's to 20's in 48 hours luckily my room stays within 5 degrees year round

 

[monk]

hey, beladran-- i like experimenting with such. made several concoctions of my own. i finally settled on a binary wax transfer system. part of mike dubbers' black wax, for the initial lift. sams' for the other. using one or the other-- sams' works better. just for kicks, i'll buy a tin from you. lemme know the sordid details
jayismonk450@gmail.com

 

[Beladran]

Email sent monk

 

[monk]

dunno what's going on ! i recvd no email from you. couldn't find your pm address. call me if you like
724-470-7214 it's so cold here, i'm thinking of trying ice cubes to do a transfer !

 

[Beladran]

Monk I tried again my email is jamesray@junikerjewelry.com
Might have went into your spam folder

 

[JOEYS CARVED ART]

Nice stuff! Those tins that you have the wax stored in would be great to engrave. Where did you get 'em [tins].

Joey

 

[Beladran]

Guy on ebay was selling them.