Tool chest light restoration

[The Spin Doctor]

Hey. I've acquired a, at least, hundred year old carpenters tool chest, actually two of them. I want to do a clean-up of them, no full-on restoration or anything like that... I was thinking of just hitting them with a wax and steel wool rub to clean off the many decades of dirt and to spruce them up... But they have oil stains on them and was wondering if the wax will not take with the oil stains.

If not, what would you do to reduce the oil stains for the wax to take


Or! What would you do over all...

[rustynail]

BLO was what we used on tool boxes from when we made them to when we burnt them.

[The Spin Doctor]

BLO was what we used on tool boxes from when we made them to when we burnt them.

That's what I've ended up doing. I'll cook it off in the QLD sun and then apply a nice wax coating.