Hi,
I have an antique French oak table (c.1860), that I cleaned up a few years ago. And after giving it an oxalic acid treatment, followed by BLO, then waxed it repeatedly over time, using a beeswax ( Gilboys, and recentlty a local beeswax that I mixed with blo…) . All good but somewhat hard work hand buffing. It’s probably had 20-30 coats over time, using woven cotton stockingette.
A couple of weeks ago I found my straw polissoirs (from Don’s Barn I think), and tried the smaller one. A great way to get a really thin coat.
I also tried using a RO90 with a yellow synthetic/foam pad, and that seems to work quite well.
I was wondering if there is a better choice. I have a R0150 as well.
I have seen felt and sheepskin suggested, but am a bit concerned of fibres shedding and getting into the wax surface. Made that mistake using new stockinigette.
The earlier photo shows the extension leaf, the whole table was like that. The top is sometime after initial oxalic and the first couple of post oil waxings
I have an antique French oak table (c.1860), that I cleaned up a few years ago. And after giving it an oxalic acid treatment, followed by BLO, then waxed it repeatedly over time, using a beeswax ( Gilboys, and recentlty a local beeswax that I mixed with blo…) . All good but somewhat hard work hand buffing. It’s probably had 20-30 coats over time, using woven cotton stockingette.
A couple of weeks ago I found my straw polissoirs (from Don’s Barn I think), and tried the smaller one. A great way to get a really thin coat.
I also tried using a RO90 with a yellow synthetic/foam pad, and that seems to work quite well.
I was wondering if there is a better choice. I have a R0150 as well.
I have seen felt and sheepskin suggested, but am a bit concerned of fibres shedding and getting into the wax surface. Made that mistake using new stockinigette.
The earlier photo shows the extension leaf, the whole table was like that. The top is sometime after initial oxalic and the first couple of post oil waxings
