How to Make Fixin' Wax the Easy Traditional Way (Hope this helps!)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 29 січ 2017
- How to Make Fixin' Wax the Easy Traditional Way
My Grandfather taught me to make Fixin' wax to use for my tools, tool handles, for cuts, chapped lips and more.
Here's how I just processed about 2lbs of it for about $8.00.
Just look up all the different uses for Fixin' wax, you'd be surprised how much you can do with it!
I also use it on my cuticles where they get dry and cracked :) - Навчання та стиль
Great video
THANK YOU BROTHER.
my pleasure. My new channel is One Foot in the Wild...Check it out!
Finally, a simple recipe. I had a suspicion that homesteaders weren't using coconut oil....
yeah...not many coconuts growing on traditional homesteads :) Thanks
I whipped up a batch last night and it is perfect!
cool man. Easy and now you got a skill you can pass down to others. Awesome
great way to see haw its done
one of many ways, but it gets the job done for me :) Thanks
Cool stuff! Hoping to try it out soon
easy to do, let me know how it goes
+trucks. Actually, the white bee's wax is the wax that bees cap honey with in the hive. Older wax is more yellow, newer wax is more white.
The difference between the waxes is slight: Yellow Beeswax is fully refined, while the White Beeswax is naturally bleached by exposing it in thin layers to air, sunlight and moisture.
thanks for your comment
Trucks Tools and Tractors - no problem. Next time I see white wax in my hives, I'll have to ask the girls what brand of bleach they use. 😉 I'm not saying it might not be further refined during processing though.
Typically, it's white in the hive (unless there is yellow capping from slow flow or bees tending to get allot of pollen from goldenrod) but, by the time wax is refined by manufacturers, it has a bright gold tint. Because of this, the processors air and sunbleach the yellow to bring it to white, so that products made from the wax won't contain a tinge.
I do understand it is naturally white, but turns yellow rapidly due to the refinement and heating to remove debris or due to different types of pollen. Thanks
Trucks Tools and Tractors absolutely right chief. all bees wax goes through a filtering process to get all the particles and debris out. after that they do bleach the bees wax for that bright yellow color. but I buy my bees wax from my local honey lady. the wax I buy from her is a dark brownish gold color and I must say that it makes the best fixin wax compared to anything I've bought at hobby lobby,Amazon.and eBay and hobby lobby was the best of those. so all bees wax starts out white but ends up very dark before its bleached. love the video & God bless!!!
I prefer mink oil, or mink oil paste, for leather, but fixin' wax is good for many things.
Can fixin wax be used on a cast iron tablesaw to prevent rust
yep
How long will it keep, before the lard gets rancid?
It won' it's clean and refined, no meat fragments in it. Keep it in a cool place and it will be good :)
Would fat work? Sounds like it might do the trick. Good video!
as long as it's clean. You wouldn't want any bi-product in it as it would become rancid. But, I've used rendered beef fat, racoon fat and many other things lol. thanks
+trucks - What general part of PA are you from? I'm guessing SW??
I'm near Pittsburgh, family was originally
from Waynesburg, so I got a little mix of Burgh and hick accent I guess lol
Trucks Tools and Tractors I was born in Gibsonia, so familiar with the area.
yep. 15 minutes down the road from me