to wax or not to wax?

I used renaisance wax on my last project, and I’m glad I did. How long did you wait between the final tung oil coat and the wax? What wax did you use? How long did you let it sit?

I waxed all my cabinets by applying it with #000 steel wool. Stained if wanted, 2 coats of satin poly and then waxed.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

i let the tung oil final coat dry for around 12 hours, then rubbed on some “minwax past wax”. i got a gob of wax wraped in an old cotton tee shirt and applied the wax in small cirular motion, waiting about an hour the buffed off the wax with a small buffer.

-- the journy of a thousand miles begins with a single step " Lou-Tzu"

Happy, if you used pure tung oil, it will not build to a shine like boiled linseed oil, and wax normally gives you a satin finish, compared to varnish, poly, etc. Since you had a shinny finish, you must of had a tung oil finish, which contains some kind of varnish. You can wipe the piece down with mineral spirits and remove the wax. It may dissolve the finish some also, depending on how long it’s cured. Then reapply your tung oil finish and it will be back to the stage before you applied the wax.

-- Tim -- http://tmuli.com

hey every one thanks for the input. tenontim thanks for the jinfo on types of finnishes ill keep it in mind ill try the mineral spirits. i used the “formby’s gloss tung oil” so i havent looked yet but your probably right about additives

-- the journy of a thousand miles begins with a single step " Lou-Tzu"