Montana Pitch Blend Recipe?

[Martyn]

I'm interested in trying Montana Pitch Blend wax but it's not available in the UK and shipping/tax from the US makes it ridiculously expensive. I believe it's a blend of beeswax, mink oil and pine pitch/resin. I have the ingredients to make something similar myself but have no idea of the proportions? Does anyone have a recipe?

Thanks,

Martyn.

[Martyn]

Bump.

Anyone?

[Northmount]

A little info here

Also look at this page http://www.montanapitchblend.com/our-story.html

Tom

[Martyn]

Thanks Tom, that's a good start. This is the MPB-ish recipe...

Leather Waterproofing
4 oz. beeswax
4 oz. resin or rosin (music stores carry)
1 pint vegetable oil
Melt the solids in the oil, and apply while warm.

It's a good starting point. If I switch out the veg oil for mink oil, I should be on the right track. I might also try a batch with linseed oil too.

It's a very oil heavy blend, in ratios it's...

1 part beeswax
1 part resin
5 parts oil

[Northmount]

Be careful with linseed oil.  Raw linseed oil never dries, stays sticky and gummy.  Boiled linseed oil has driers or other chemicals added to it so it will dry.

Tom

[Martyn]

7 hours ago, northmount said:

Be careful with linseed oil.  Raw linseed oil never dries, stays sticky and gummy.  Boiled linseed oil has driers or other chemicals added to it so it will dry.

Tom

Yeah I know, I made a waterproofing wax for canvas recently that was 1 part beeswax, 1 part turpentine (the real stuff) and 1 part boiled linseed oil. I used it on a canvas rucksack and am really impressed with the results. It took about 10 days to fully cure, but the end result is really good. I was talking with spectre6000 recently and he's had really good results with linseed oil in his oil experiments here:

I've always avoided using it on leather because it polymerises and I assumed it would stiffen the leather, but I'm curious now. I'm going to make up a couple of small batches of wax with different recipes and test them on swatches.