I always seem to get wood polishing urges in the fall. There is just something about the soft warm glow of freshly polished wood ware that goes with breezy days and crisp, cool nights. I really love functional, utilitarian objects made of wood, and the older the better.
Long ago I had tried my hand at making my own wood polish, but I was not happy with the results. I recently decided to try again and this time used the Woodmouse's recipe for inspiration. Mine is roughly the same proportions, except that I used sweet almond oil (because that is what I had) which I found took a bit more than 1/4 cup of bee's wax (per 1 cup of oil) to get the consistency I wanted.
I just put the oil and the bee's wax into a wide mouth pint jar and set the jar into a pot of water as a makeshift double boiler. I left the polish right in the jar, this way there were no other containers to clean wax out of (I used a clean, wood paint stirrer for stirring).
Ah, autumn. Now bring on the cool!
