Jeweler’s Basics – 100% Pure Yellow Beeswax Bar 1oz/28g

Introduction

Beeswax has a multitude of uses in and around the workshop, studio and home. Use this 100% pure beeswax for lubricating and coating your saw blades and tools. With a spot of beeswax, saw blades will cut smoothly through metal without ‘catching’ making sawing much easier and reducing the amount of broken blades. Read on for more uses:

• Apply to saw blades to help glide smoothly through metal
• Wax and coat cord, thread and silks when beading to prevent fraying
• Casting pieces using the lost wax method
• Polish and seal oxidised silver to prolong oxidisation
• Picking up and holding small stones and beads in place whilst setting
• Rubbed onto a surface for transferring designs
• Polish up stones and sea glass for a natural shine
• Drawing wire through a drawplate
• Wood restoration
• Lubricating steel burrs HSS drill bits and steel tools