Help - waxing polycotton clothing - Fjallraven etc

[Andy_P]

I'm after some advice on waxing polycotton clothing like fjallraven, combats etc.

I've bought a Fjallraven g1000 shirt and it's a great bit of kit. I'm after something I can use around a fire, while working with wood / thorny branches etc that wont get ripped to shreds and this seems a good bit of kit. I've got one block of greenlandwax, but at 8 quid a block and re waxing after two washes it seems an expensive option.

I've seen topics before about people making up a liquid wax with beeswax and turps etc on a stove and brushing it onto cotton garments, I'm assuming this would be a slightly more permanent solution (bit more like a waxed cotton jacket?) than rubbing in the greenland wax as and where required.

Anyone got any tips for cheaper waxing products or DIY bodges?

cheers

Andy

 

[British Red]

Just make your own. Beeswax, paraffin wax, carranuba wax, paraffin, real turpentine. Various combinations and proportions of them make all the leather treatment, garment wax and furniture polish you will ever need

 

[Andy_P]

Sounds like a fun evening with the chemistry set

What do I do, just gently heat the waxes in the turps until its all blends in to a paste/cream? Any suggestions for proportions/percentages and suppliers for the materials?

cheers

Andy

 

[sasquatch]

Plus one to what Red said, it's mainly parrafin and beeswax. Melt it to make a block then let it set. Rub it in evenly and take a paint stripper to it, repeat as necessary. Cheap as chips. Be careful if adding turps, you don't need it but there's a great recipe involving it.

 

[British Red]

Use a double boiler to melt the wax, add the liquids, remove from the heat and pour into the jars.

There are dozens of recipes on the net - just google "beeswax leather conditioner" or whatever you are looking for. Don't over complicate it, have a go - it really is simple.

 

[Andy_P]

cheers

 

[oetzi]

Fjellraven - overpriced s###e throughout the range.
Pinewood is now my polycotton clothing of choice, as they use the same fabric as FR, but at about a third of the price.
Homemade wax sound good, no one should buy the original FR-wax more than once at this price.

 

[Andy_P]

It was on sale with quite a chunk off, I wouldn't have paid the 80 quid rrp for it !