Bee's Wax

Where the best place is to get some bee's wax. I forgot..know it's been on here.
Thanks....

This place has great reviews and it can be found in our supplier's links...
[url] http://www.beeswaxfrombeekeepers.com/bulkbeeswax.html[/url]

Thanks Musketman..I'm going to try the beeswax finish on the gun I'm working on now.

If you live in an area that has a Michaels or Hobby Lobby they sell 1# cakes of beeswax in the candle-making section.

If you have someone locally selling honey, just ask for the wax. Most of the time they're happy to give it to you (should buy some honey too ,,, just to sweeten the deal :rotf: ).

Also, the Forum has a search tool that returned 500 references to "beeswax". Here is one of them.
[url] http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/188752[/url]

Hoyt,

I looked a long time for a good, cheap source. I finally approached a small time bee keeper. I got near a hundred pounds for twenty dollars! It was not perfectly clean but heck it wasn't much trouble to melt it down and pour through cheesecloth.

Charcloth

Mr. Musketman,
Perhaps we should give them another try. Sent one request via email but no response.
Best Wishes

The trapping supply places carry beeswax.

The shipping on that site seems double what it should be. They need to throw it in a flat rate box.

Your not likely to beat a deal from your local beekeeper, and there's more of them out there than you may think ! But I found a cool deal in an unlikely place - Johnny's Selected Seeds in Maine (www.johnnysseeds.com). They sell Beeswax as Pellets in a 1 Lb. bag for $4.60 plus shipping. That's cheaper than most places sell raw (unfiltered) beeswax for and this stuff is clean enough to use in making cosmetic products (mainly what they sell it for). It's also easy to use in small quantities, cause you don't have to take a chip off the block - just grab a few pellets.

Thanks for all the good info..I see plenty of bee box's or hives..whatever you call the white boxes that bee people haul in on flatbeds and set out in the woods or orange groves, but don't know of any bee keepers..the people that work the honey. I think they move the hives or boxes full of bees all around the country wherever good blossoms are located. Never see anybody doing anything but loading or unloading the boxes.
Anyway I know I can find some bees wax with all this info.
thanks..

This is where I purchase Bees wax.
[url] http://www.texasdrone.com[/url]/

Every Local Bee keeper I called had a use for their wax. Something about starting new hives or other uses? I gave up and look for it other places.

Try [url] www.dadant.com[/url] They are an apiary supply house. The wax they ship is the cleanest I have ever used.

This past weekend, I went to an Outdoor and Boat Show and there was a regional beekeeper selling honey and other related stuff. I asked him about some beeswax and he asked me "how many pounds do you want?" I said I would start with two. The next day, he brought me two large hunks and charged me $8.00. The wax still needs some cleaning, but I got more than two pounds for my money.

Now to put it to use!

TexiKan