Carnauba wax first Pipe

Fired up the Hobo buff today running my drill at full speed and pressing hard i managed to transfer a little wax on to the wheel.
The wax is so hard the HH block is like a piece of plastic wow.

You can see the edge of the wax is rounded.
The wheel on top has the wax on it.  

I used the Barling as a test.
You really have to be careful now as producing enough friction to transfer the wax to pipe has its risks.
So full speed on the drill.
Press the pipe hard and hang on.
And keep the pipe moving
In the end i had a thin coating over the pipe hard to see it but you could feel it.

This is with out a doubt the next level of polishing. 

Dr Plumb is a bit out classed 

Then at slow speed i polished  the pipe.

In the flesh it looks like glass.

Carnauba wax experiment

I melted down some more carnauba wax yesterday. However, this time I placed it in the freezer to cool directly from the oven. Initially everything was fine, but then the wax cracked badly. No matter, back in the oven to remelt and then an hour or so cooling on the bench-top and everything was ok again.

As you can see the colour of the quick-cooled version is the same as the bench cooled version. The quick-cooled wax does have a slightly more consistent appearance. But I noticed that when I put the remelted wax on top of the cool (big) stove-top hotplate in my kitchen it cooled rapidly without cracking and also had a more consistent appearance.

I think the day that I did the original batch it was quite warm so the outer layers of wax had longer to cool and set before the middle layers started to cool and set. Not that it makes any difference I guess, but I am trying to make the highest quality product possible and every little thing may help. Let's see what HD can do with that initial block :)

Badly cracked but more consistent in colour. I'm quite impressed by how resilient carnauba seems to be, not even poor handling seems to change it's physical properties.