[TheForge] Clear finish

[Andy Gladish]

Andy-
I used a variation on this for our living room floor.
Worked ok, but since then have replaced it with regular commercial wax.  
Reason was, using enough turpentine to make the wax flow made our LR  
unliveable for days.
BTW, the floor was a lime/sand mix soaked in boiled linseed oil- very nice  
and user friendly.


On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:00:11 -0700, Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:

> Andy Gladish wrote:
>
>> next question is, why use turpentine? I've
>> had consistently good results with plain wax...is it about getting into  
>> the cracks, or what?
>
> 	Turpentine is nothing more than a vehicle for the other components.  It  
> thins the mix.
>
> 	Oh, another component I have used is carnauba wax to harden up the  
> finish.  Linseed oil polymerizes into a plastic-like film. Beeswax  
> remains as it is.  The addition of carnauba will cause the finish to be  
> a bit harder.  You have to play with the ingredients to find a formula  
> that suits your desires.  BTW, pure carnauba is like glass.  Hard and  
> very brittle.  For some applications I would call it a very good finish  
> by itself.
>
> 	-Andy
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