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great job

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Nice job, it looks great

-- Glenn, New Mexico

Thank you Jeanmarc, thank you Glenn.

-- Alejandro Moreno, CANARY ISLANDS

Very slick, nice woodwork and pleasing to the eye.

Is this all wood on wood with no metal hardware?

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Very nice. Good use of space. What type of wax did you use?

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A great solution that looks really nice. Thanks for sharing Alejandro.

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Thank you.

-- Alejandro Moreno, CANARY ISLANDS

P a B u l l , yes, no metal hardware at all.
Z u k i , I used to prepare it by myself with an old recipe. But I found that people don’t have time to take care of the finish, so nowadays I use a water-base laque. The recipe contained ¿turpentine?, bee-wax and carnauba-wax: it is a “vegetable” wax; its amount determined the hardness of the mixture, so how glossy could be polished the finish). I was so practice that I didn´t use exact measures: I mixed it depending on the wood I was using, how glossy the finish had to be and how much I was going to work on it.

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Here is a link to the SU model.

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Nice model Alejandro. The lock miters look like a quick way to make a drawer.

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Wow, even better….

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C h i c o W o o d n u t , what are the “lock miters”?

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Great job!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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Very cool, awesome design…

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That’s a very clever design. Now I’m more curious as to your wax recipe! I’m very interested!

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Like the first time I spoke about the wax recipe, I feel a little scared of not beeing able to explain it properly. I don´t fear that you get a solid cake instead of a more or less thick pomade, but the process is dangerous and you must be very careful to avoid severe burns or an explosion. I know some old carpenter heavily burned when he was a young apprentice. If you don´t feel confident, don´t try it. I´ve done it for years and no accident happened. Do it only in very well ¿aired?/¿ventilated? rooms.
You need raw bee wax, carnauba wax and ¿turpentine?. The dictionary I use makes no distinction between
“aguarras” and “trementina”: it says “turpentine” for both, but I think the correct name is “white spirit”. It is a greasy, uncolored, very thin and transparent liquid that smells strong, and is very inflammable. You use it, for example, for cleaning brushes used with oil based paints. There is a mineral substitute, but I always use the that with vegetal origin.
I used to buy the bee wax as rectangular cakes about 25 cm (w) by 40 cm (l) and by 4 cm (h).
The carnauba wax I bought, a vegetal wax coming from Brazil, came in flakes.
You need an electric hot plate (to prevent flames to cause a fire) and two boilers: a wide and flat one, for the water, and a smaller but higher one, for the blend.
Put the flat boiler on the hot plate and fill it with water. Put the small boiler into the heating water and fill the smaller boiler with the solid bee wax and the carnauba wax flakes. The hot water will heat the smaller boiler softly, causing the waxes to melt. Water doesn´t need to boilt: if the heat is too strong, waterdrops can jump into the wax. To prevent this, you use a higher boiler for the blend. Stir the melting waxes well, until both are completely liquid. The carnauba wax needs more time: you will see the flakes laying on the boiler´s bottom for a while. When all the wax is liquid, pour the ¿white spirit?/¿turpentine? carefully into the blend.
Mix it perfectly and pour the blend into the final containers (with a wide mouth).
Because of it turpentine content, the resulting pomade can harden easily, if you don´t store it in a airtight container. It´s not serious: you can always use it as raw material for new pomade.
You will learn easily to get the density you want, so you can spread it with a cloth or with a brush, depending on the kind of surface you want to cover. I used to prepare the amount I needed.
You can began for example with 500 gr bee wax, one tea cup of carnauba wax and 1 liter ¿white spirit?/¿turpentine?. The carnauba wax content makes the blend harder, so you can get glossier finishes. The ¿white spirit?/¿turpentine? content makes the blend ¿creamier? (more creamy).
I used to rub the job with ¿white spirit?/¿tupentine? to cause the wax blend to penetrate deeper into the wood.
I hope it´s enough information for you. I hope you make good use of it.

-- Alejandro Moreno, CANARY ISLANDS