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Originally Posted by loulac
Not a bad idea. let me add that with furniture wax (coming from bees, not chemistry) you will get nice results too.
My father was the artist and created the work, I prepared the tools according to his directions and polished the finished product (very fine sand paper, steelwool, woolcloth).
I'm quite interested in the result you can get from a wood I don't know. Plenty of woodturners here like working on US imported walnut wood.
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I like to use pure tung oil not the tung oil finish we see here.
You can drink pure tung oil but you will get fat.
I do have some bees wax somewhere and have made concoctions with it.
When I was little my father bought me two knives and a stone.
He would test how well I was doing by shaving his whiskers.
Soon in school I was the knife guy and even the teachers would hand me their knives to sharpen.
The mesquite wood, it is also known as Texas iron wood and is as hard as a rock.
On the Janka scale it is 2345 only 4 down from the Brazilian walnut/Ipe which is at 3684 the hardest.
American walnut is at 1010.
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