Lundmark Pure Bee's Wax Lubricating Compound, .7-Ounce, 9105W7-100

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After reading many of the negative reviews and after my own trial-and-error experience I have come to believe this product requires a more involved application process than many are probably doing.For lubrication of wooden drawer slides simply rubbing the wax onto the wood is likely going to increase friction and make the drawers "sticky". I have found the following process to be effective.The goal is to impregnate the wood with the wax, remove all excess wax and polish the wax surface by sanding it with fine sandpaper.Impregnating the wood with the wax requires heat. You can use a clothes iron, preferably without holes in the base (non-steam iron) or with a hot air gun. I used the latter which made it easy to get into tight areas.Carefully look at where the drawer slides contact each other. These are the only areas that need to be coated.Heat the wood with the hot air and apply wax to the heated wood. Then apply heat to the waxed surface and repeat until the wax is melted into the wood and the surface is completely coated with wax. You can actually see the wax turn to liquid and soak into the wood. You can tell which areas need more wax by the color, in my case non-waxed areas were slightly white in color.After you've covered the slides with wax, with light pressure, in one stroke slide the wax puck over the full length of the slide. If the puck sticks, a little more wax will come off. Heat those areas to melt the wax in. Keep doing this until the puck glides freely.Use a metal or plexi scraper to scrape off excess wax (I used a scraper sold for waxing skis).Lightly sand the surface with 400-800 grit sand paper and finish sand with 1500-1800 grit sandpaper. I like to sand the full length of the slide in one stroke, rather than back-and-forth in shorter areas, to keep the surface even.This process significantly reduced friction and greatly improved the sliding action of my drawers.

Used this on a very old dresser made the drawers easy to pull out. Works great.

Applied it to the drawers of our new furniture. They slide easily and quietly now.

I bought this to help lubricate screws before using them in hard wood. When I use it I can drive 2" brass screws deep into hickory, oak, or maple without the screws breaking off. It works great, and a pound should last me forever.I tested mixing some of this with mineral oil, heating it, and rubbing it on a cutting board I had made. It worked well for this, and will order more so I can use it on them. I will use a different block of bees wax so that I don't end up with small pieces of metal embedded in my cutting boards.

Disappointing and not what I expected.First, this is a tiny amount of wax for $9.15; the cake of wax measures 2" diameter x 1/2" thick.Second, I was hoping for something easier to apply. This wax is incredibly hard, like a piece of plastic, it will take considerable time and effort to get any of this wax rubbed off on whatever you hope to lubricate.Overall, I really wish I had bought a different brand of product, this one is extremely disappointing.

The real deal. Pure beeswax. Very durable. Of course you must heat it to make it pliable or melt it, and also preheat whatever you are applying it to to at least 125-130° F. So it’s not super easy to apply or for the modern “spray it on and wipe” mindset but it lasts longer than anything and can be used for myriad different things—for sinstance will waterproof any natural fabric and some that aren’t natural better than any other substance. And it’s not toxic and has no teflon type PFOAs or other so-called “devil’s p***” (I didn’t make that up—google “PFOAs devil’s p***”, without the asterisks) chemicals in it. It’s the real deal, great stuff.

I have a solid wood dresser I re-did last year that the drawers were hard to pull out. I added this wax to the bottom of each drawer and the difference is absolutely amazing. They now open so much easier and without the awful squeak they had before! Highly recommend for wood drawers!