Hello boys and girls, Uncle Al needs some advise.....

[ozwinner]

Hi, and welcome

I have a buffet that we bought for the shop, someone has done a wooonderful job of stripping it back to bare timber, but then the doofuses applyed bees wax direct to the bare timber.

Now I want to shlop on some shellac. Remember shlip shlop shellac??

How do I remove the horrid sticky bees wax, so as the shellac will stick?

Al :confused:

[bitingmidge]

Al,

Why not go for the charred look??

Give it the quick once-over with a blow torch, then buff it...The wax could only help!!

On the other hand, what about that stuff the panel beaters use on cars... prepsol or similar?

P

[Rusty]

Greetings, oh reflective one;
Had a similar problem once and was advised that steel wool, turps and elbow grease was the only way. I can't tell you if it works or not cos I hand balled it after that.
Cheers,
Rus.

[echnidna]

Dunno if its possible to remove wax well enough to apply shellac but the turps and steel wool could remove the wax sufficiently to use a danish oil type mix.

[fxst]

I would think that the bees wax would be hard to remove ...go for BM's method .
Pete

[ubeaut]

Forget the steel wool all it will do is make a bigger mess for you to clean up. Wash it down with mineral turps and lots of clean rag. Even better if you can heat the turps (don't set fire to yourself or anything else).

Contrary to popular belief, shellac will go over almost anything and stick to it like nothing else, so you really don't need to totally remove the wax. Beeswax was used as a filler prior to shellacking on many antique pieces of furniture.

Cheers - Neil

[vsquizz]

Uncle Al needs some advise.....

Glad you have finally faced up to it Al. Professional help is available, just check out the yellow pages...Oh and always be good to your Mum

Cheers

[ozwinner]

Thanks Neil

Glad to see that Im not the only sane member on the BB.
I was starting to get the feeling that I was the only sane one here.........Mwahhhaaaaaaa.......

Al

[Sturdee]

Al,

Checked with my french polishing teacher and he also advises a wash down with turps, then a good scraping with a handscraper followed with handsanding prior to polishing.

Good luck, shouldn't take too long, just a bit of elbow grease.


Peter.