Ed Clarke wrote in :

On 2005-03-04, Andy Dingley wrote:

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.

Briwax IS available in the US. I have a can of the "Dark Brown" version
right here in my hand. It is manufactured in the UK using toluene as a
solvent. I was told to let shelac "cure" for two weeks minimum before
applying a coat of this over fumed QS white oak. You can get it in
the US from:

http://www.briwax.com

It was something like $20 per can in the "Original" formulation with the
dark brown pigmentation. Robert W. Lang ("Shop drawings for Craftsman
Furniture - 27 Stickley designs for every room in the house") was the
person who recommended it (and warned about the cure time) to me. He's
got a copy of the #700 Harvey Ellis (Stickley) bookcase in the Feb 2005
issue of Popular Woodworking.

I go to pick up the QS white oak for it tomorrow at a sawmill 100 miles
away.


My excellent neighborhood hardware store has 6 or more colors on the shelf,
as does the local Woodcraft. The price sticker on my can says $13.99.

Patriarch