JAllcorn Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 Dadant bee supply co (online) sells beeswax for $4.76/lb min order 25 lbs. If you are close to one of their stores you can buy single 1 lb blocks. I've been building a staircase out of #14 rebar (1-3/4" diameter) and am using beeswax to finish. Heat w/ rosebud torch until bar turns "blue" and apply w/ 1 lb block and wipe off. Lots of smoke and dripped wax. Repeat 3 or 4 times. When cool, the bar is slightly sticky, then after a few days the stickiness goes away. Cheapest canola oil from a thrift store works well, esp for food item use. Apply hot w/ brush and wipe off. Leaves sort of shiny coat. Looks good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 I got a mess of nasty clean up and cappings from a beekeeper for almost nothing and boiled them out in the yard a couple of times to purify it and had several pounds of lovely beeswax still very redolent of the honey. My advice, Buy Local! Traded for a couple of hive tools later... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete46 Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 I Just Use Canning Wax From The Grocery Store.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden_eagle Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 I Just have to wash the sticky mess off the reject from our hives. But its worth the work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blacksmith Jim Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 I'm planning on starting to keep a hive next summer. I'm really looking forward to it. If I get much honey from it I think it will just go straight into mead I've used solid blocks of bees wax and rubbed them on to black hot iron. I have been pleased with the results from that. I have also been surprisingly pleased with using sprays like PAM. They were simply at hand and I wanted to get the pieces coated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Budd Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 I've even resorted to parafin wax candles when I've been at shows and forgotten my beeswax. Worked fine The colour was more black black than the brown black you get from beeswax and the coating was harder than normal too. Also, if its in a warm place teh wax doesn't soften, so it doesn't get sticky ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidney brink Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 I dip mine in cooking oil,wesson, at a black heat. this makes a nice black finish.used veggy oil is fine,and eddible for those cooking tools. can't raise bees highly alergic to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 The wax rings sold for toilet seals are pure beeswax, and it's easier than harvesting from the insects, but I do love mead!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJ Smith Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 You can get beeswax on ebay TJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petersenj20 Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Equal parts: Wax, Turpentine, Linseed oil, and a small amount of the Japan drier. And recommends using toilet rings. I remember reading somewhere before that they are beeswax too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodreaux Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Bee sure to read what the toilet seating rings are...they USED to be bees wax, most now are a polymer fake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodeye Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 I am with petersonj20 - but I can no longer say mine mix is equal parts -but that is about where I started. I managed to score a cast iron kettle at a Goodwill store for $6.00 so I put the mix in that and kepp it near the fire whilst forging to melt it up good in my unheated Wisconsin forge and just add a bit of one of the three ingredents from time to time and its working great. For food contact I simply go with Crisco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Bly Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 I saw this source for beeswax while browsing:Beeswax-Centaur Forge Although I do like the thought of just going to a local beekeeper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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