Do you uses Beeswax as part of your lube?

[WBR10654]

Why am I asking because the best price I have been able to find is $6.80 a pound.... and that is buying 50 pounds....

I use a mixture of Crisco/Vegetable Shorting and Beeswax and need to buy some more....

So who has access to beeswax and can sell me some?

DPB

[jonk]

I do for some lubes. Did a little digging for you.
http://www.eberthoney.com/Beeswax.html $5.15 a pound, $4.75 a pound for industrial grade (only roughly filtered).

http://www.bulkapothecary.com/product/raw-ingredients/waxes-and-butters/beeswax-white-and-yellow/ $4.37/lb.

Still not cheap, and hopefully another member can help you out. But a little better than the price you had anyhow.

[Lou Lou Lou]

There is a member who advertised here recently. Do a search

[WBR10654]

I do for some lubes. Did a little digging for you.
http://www.eberthoney.com/Beeswax.html $5.15 a pound, $4.75 a pound for industrial grade (only roughly filtered).

http://www.bulkapothecary.com/product/raw-ingredients/waxes-and-butters/beeswax-white-and-yellow/ $4.37/lb.

Still not cheap, and hopefully another member can help you out. But a little better than the price you had anyhow.

Roughly filtered is fine.... I will contact them,

Thanks,

DPB

[John Maderious]

Dave,
I have used beeswax and lard for a long time and never had a problem with lube. What worked well in the CW still works well. I prefer lard over crisco because crisco gets sticky after it melts then firms up, whereas lard stays slippery after it firms up, regardless of how many times it is melted, no near-melted. The beeswas is expensive, but since it forms a fraction of the total mix, a pound of beeswax will give you a lot of shooting.
I don't want to start a "lube thing"--it's all been said before many times.
John Maderious

[Jim Barber]

I'll have a little beeswax available at Nationals-- $7 a brick. Each one is at least 12 oz., most are closer to a pound. They're supposed to be 1 lb slabs but I scaled them and they're light. It's a fairly light wax, color-wise, and has been filtered. I'm with the 110th OVI, drop me a PM if you need directions to the camp or would like my tel #. Have about 25 bricks left for sale, outside of my personal stash. Word is that wax will be going up this year. I bought a bunch last year from a buddy who's in the Bees-ness.

Cheers
Jim B
110th OVI
Grove City, OH

ps: I'll be at the MW spring skirmish in Centerburg in a couple weeks, anyone headed there let me know and I'll bring it along. Crud, I originally posted this as $9 a slab. Shoulda been $7. Works out to $9/ lb or less.

[bobanderson]

Roughly filtered is fine....

"Lube works better if you leave the little parts of bees in the mix.

[RaiderANV]

"Lube works better if you leave the little parts of bees in the mix.

It tastes better too.....but I recommend picking the stingers out first!

[Eggman]

I sold a box full - maybe twenty pounds - to Alice a couple years ago for a buck a pound. Let's see, where's my suicide gun.

[R. McAuley 3014V]

Anyone tried synthetic beeswax? Retailers claim it is blended of a mixture of fatty acid esters, fatty acids, and alcohols from a non-animal raw material source to very closely meet the chemical composition of natural beeswax. Retails for $6.95 for 13-oz block or $59.95 ($6.66/lb) for 9 lbs. Or for $10/lb for natural beeswax.

https://www.artmolds.com/synthetic-beeswax.html

https://www.artmolds.com/pure-bees-wax.html

[MR. GADGET]

Anyone tried synthetic beeswax? Retailers claim it is blended of Crap..

Don't do it you will not be happy.

[buicksp39]

I can get about 100 or more pounds I get a better price for the more I buy. How much do you want 724 679 1619

[iron brigade]

I buy mine from Randyrat over on cast boolits forum. very good prices.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/forumdisplay.php?146-ALLEEBEE-S-beeswax-lube-amp-products