"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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It was somewhere outside Barstow when Ryan wrote:

Any good brand names to look for?

I'm in the UK - don't know if they're relevant.

Nearly every manufactured finishing product I buy is from Liberon.
Their "Black Bison" finishing wax is good - I use the "neutral" which
is white, rather than the "clear" which is a bit yellowish. The
coloured waxes (which I rarely use) are far from light stable IMHE, so
will fade enormously. I also use this stuff on steelwork - keep
separate tins and brushes for doing that, as it ends up filthy and
will discolour wood.

The local antique trade swear by "Briwax", which isn't available in
the USA. This is very heavy on the solvents (why you get a different
formulation in the USA) and is easy to apply for a quick one-pass
finish job on Antique Naughty Pine Furniture (tm). Now this is great
if you _want_ to make shoddy recycled pine look like "old" furniture
with little effort, but it's nothing like as hard wearing as a harder
wax.

Both are available in the USA.