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<blockquote data-quote="sobx" data-source="post: 592288" data-attributes="member: 4944"><p>I buy the bag of beeswax pellets at Michaels craft store. There's the bleached (white) beeswax and there's the natural (yellow) beeswax. I've always used the natural but I don't know if there's any significant difference. The purpose is to provide a solvent to migrate the color, so there is probably no difference in that aspect. My reasoning was if it has been bleached, it's been altered somehow and I'm pretty sure 150 years ago Turkish carvers didn't have bleached beeswax.</p><p></p><p>I'm told by some of my Turkish carver FB pals that many carvers use a blend of beeswax and oils, but they wont give up their "secret" recipe. They all claim their particular blend of wax/oils is the best. I wouldn't think it'd be any type of animal fat oil as that would turn rancid over time.</p><p></p><p>Another point worth mentioning is that when I warm the meer to apply the wax, I have my heat gun on a medium-low setting (your heat gun may vary). I try to keep the pipe at the temperature that the wax stays liquid on the pipe until I let it cool, not get the meer too hot. Then when I remove the wax I heat it up again, just past the point where the wax turns to liquid on the pipe. I don't think you could hurt the stone by getting it too hot, but my concern is stress fractures from heating/cooling it too fast.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sobx, post: 592288, member: 4944"] I buy the bag of beeswax pellets at Michaels craft store. There's the bleached (white) beeswax and there's the natural (yellow) beeswax. I've always used the natural but I don't know if there's any significant difference. The purpose is to provide a solvent to migrate the color, so there is probably no difference in that aspect. My reasoning was if it has been bleached, it's been altered somehow and I'm pretty sure 150 years ago Turkish carvers didn't have bleached beeswax. I'm told by some of my Turkish carver FB pals that many carvers use a blend of beeswax and oils, but they wont give up their "secret" recipe. They all claim their particular blend of wax/oils is the best. I wouldn't think it'd be any type of animal fat oil as that would turn rancid over time. Another point worth mentioning is that when I warm the meer to apply the wax, I have my heat gun on a medium-low setting (your heat gun may vary). I try to keep the pipe at the temperature that the wax stays liquid on the pipe until I let it cool, not get the meer too hot. Then when I remove the wax I heat it up again, just past the point where the wax turns to liquid on the pipe. I don't think you could hurt the stone by getting it too hot, but my concern is stress fractures from heating/cooling it too fast. [/QUOTE]
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