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How to fine sand and wax a wood carving?

1, hit with 1000 grit sandpaper and wax with natural beeswax.

2, with 400 grit sandpaper rough hit, but to sand every corner. Then sand it again finely with 1000 grit sandpaper. Must get every corner hit.

3, to wood carving above the dust with a rag to wipe clean, in the process of wiping can not use a wet cloth, must be careful to wipe including very fine structure need to wipe clean. After wiping the dust you need to use a brush wax or hair dryer to bake, here you need to pay attention to the length of time. After baking dry with a brown wheel polishing or dry cotton cloth wipe and then you can wax.

4, beeswax, it is best to pick a natural made one. There are two ways: is the beeswax heated into liquid with a cotton cloth dipped in wax rubbing is a musket pointed at the wax block, drop to the wood carving, and then use a cotton cloth quickly rubbing.

5, the difference: there is not much change, the first save time, save effort, color is not bad, the second is to test your skills and ability to cooperate.

6, wax is usually solid, you need to first make it dissolve by ironing, then apply it to the surface of the furniture, and continue to keep ironing and rubbing.

The quality varies with different materials, for example, Kawasaki wax is usually superior to beeswax. Because the root material is mostly uneven and varied, using mechanical polishing for all of it tends to damage useful knots or figurative parts of the root body.