Part of the sheer joy of having buckets of pipes is I see the pipes and then I want to play with them.
I still have my childhood toy box out in my father’s milk barn, a big steel feed box full of toys I liked back then. An open container is the perfect toy box, for any toy.
I’ve used a huge glob of beeswax for years to polish my pipes. But I did buy three carnauba wax sticks maybe a year or so ago to try out.
One was broken and I tried rubbing in on a warm pipe like I do beeswax, and the carnauba wax has a higher melting point. So I put it aside.
Tonight I took an almost black square Benchmade and decided to try carnauba wax.
It took about three times more application time to equal beeswax.
It gives a different, and I think a little better glow.
It dries a bit harder and faster, it’s not tacky.
I see why the pipe manufactures use it.
There’s nothing worse than an old man set in his ways and against change, except one who can’t change his ways.
I still have my childhood toy box out in my father’s milk barn, a big steel feed box full of toys I liked back then. An open container is the perfect toy box, for any toy.
I’ve used a huge glob of beeswax for years to polish my pipes. But I did buy three carnauba wax sticks maybe a year or so ago to try out.
One was broken and I tried rubbing in on a warm pipe like I do beeswax, and the carnauba wax has a higher melting point. So I put it aside.
Tonight I took an almost black square Benchmade and decided to try carnauba wax.
It took about three times more application time to equal beeswax.
It gives a different, and I think a little better glow.
It dries a bit harder and faster, it’s not tacky.
I see why the pipe manufactures use it.
There’s nothing worse than an old man set in his ways and against change, except one who can’t change his ways.