RLyon - 23-12-2025 at 08:31
Oh hi its me again!
has anyone had any luck reverse engineering a solid metal wax for sealing? Renaissance and Sculpt Nouveau make sort of the same top of the line
archival stuff-its a nice smelling wax- which is as far as I can tell Microcryrstaline wax maybe a petroleum jelly and some kind of relatively
harmless solvent which keeps the whole thing close to a meting temperature. It is however ferociously expensive and I have plenty of microcrystalline
paste around- its just not sort of able to be applied as smoothly with the other adjuncts.
I feel like theres a reasonably good solution here, but I lack the vocabulary to ask the right questions of google.
PS if you want to see what Im brewing up see attached.
bnull - 23-12-2025 at 10:14
See the SDS for Sculpt Nouveau metal wax below. You're going to have to experiment with the proportions (compare melting point homemade vs commercial,
for example) to get a similar wax.
Attachment: SDS Sculpt Nouveau metal wax.pdf (68kB)
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RLyon - 26-12-2025 at 10:58
Thanks !! Looks alot like the secret is mineral oil and turpentine, lol I should have guessed. 
bnull - 26-12-2025 at 14:12
And carnauba wax, which won't be hard to find.