Since life isn't worth living without taking risks, I decided to try to heat the oil to 500 degrees Fahrenheit (260 °C). Sadly, my small stove can only heat to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (176.67 °C). This stove is solely used for animal hide glue, which it's overkill and the wrong stove to heat the glue. Monitoring it takes a lot of time, and it easily overcooks the glue, making it worthless. Avoid this stove if you see it on eBay.
Using a grater, I grated the beeswax for the pot. The beeswax disintegrated immediately. My wife gave me an earful for taking her utensils for my experiments and for destroying her kitchen in the process, but that was later on.
I cooked for a total of 20 minutes before deciding not to try my luck any further. This is what I got once it had cooled. The exact opposite of what I was searching for. It was still hot when I put it into a tiny jar after reheating it once more, this time in the kitchen. I added around 3 ml of terebine to it before placing it in the refrigerator to quickly chill down. I grate waaaay too much beeswax.
Although I'm unsure if the terebine will make the wax harder, I applied some wax to this test piece and allowed it the night to cure. This is precisely how it was done more than a century ago. Keep in mind that all of their waxes were manufactured naturally by heating beeswax in pure gum turpentine. After application, the wax was always allowed to set overnight before being vigorously buffed to a high sheen. The sheen increases upon buffing. So, let's see how this plays out. I'm hoping the oil mixture will provide a glossy surface as intended. I'm probably the first one to attempt this.
So I produced two more little bottles. One consists just of combined oil and terebine, while the other also contains very little beeswax. Gaboon wood with a 400 grit sandpaper makes up the test piece. Beeswax and tung oil were combined to create a wax that was applied to one half and not the other. I soaked the board on both sides and let it sit until it couldn't take any more oil, at which point I cleaned it all off. The terebine is clearly doing its work, since five hours later I could feel the timber dry on both sides, proving that I had mixed the right amount. But I won't add another coat till the morning of tomorrow. This is the proper technique to apply both tung and linseed oil, albeit the mixture will be somewhat different. Many people misinform others on YouTube because they are unaware of this technique. I'll have some images ready before then.
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