Minwax 78600 Special Dark Paste Finishing Wax

I use this product on the cutting surface of my scroll saw and on the surface of my air hockey table. It keeps everything sliding smoothly!!!

I've never used the finishing wax before. I just painted my kitchen cabinets and chose a color called compass blue. In a flat it looks like a deep Navy dark blue. Unfortunately, in a semi-gloss it is fluorescent blue. This totally did not go with my dark green walls. I was desperate because I certainly wasn't going to repaint them. After doing some research I chose dark finishing wax. It brought down that brightness to exactly what I wanted it to be. In addition, finishing wax is going to add an additional layer of hard protection for my kitchen cabinets. Great product, and easy to apply.

I've become a bit of a furniture upcycling addict and I've been doing a lot of work with home made chalk paint. Because of this process I also have to use something as a protectant and the finishing wax works great. I didn't even realize Minwax made it in a tinted wax until I got on here looking for the regular wax that doesn't have any color to it. Here's where things get awesome. With the chalk painting I distress the corners and other places on furniture to bring out the natural (or stained) wood underneath. In the past with the regular wax I actually added a dark (ebony, I think) stain to it to help keep the wood coming through a rich dark color. Let me tell you, trying to mix the stain with the wax was a HUGE pain. I saw this in the special dark and thought I'd give it a try since it seems as if it was going to do exactly what I had been wasting time doing and converting a two step process down to one step. Bought it, tried it, and it was AWESOME! It went on smooth and buffed beautifully. I'll never go back to the hard way I was doing it before! On a side note, with the furniture I did before - I turned a buffet into a bathroom vanity and we've been using it for about 9 months.. The cabinet still looks beautiful and the wax did a great job at protecting it. This stuff is made to last.

I have a dining room table that has been bothering me for a while. It has gotten pretty dull in areas. I purchased some restore a finish and used it and was very unhappy with the results even using their feed-n-wax product afterwards. So I did a little more research and stumbled on a website that recommended this finishing wax. I really don't want to strip and refinish the whole table and am only looking for a way to seal the top and make it shiny again. I applied this first with a cloth and I think I got it on a little thicker than I needed to which made it really hard to buff afterwards. I used a round boar hair brush on a drill to do the first buff with then used a cloth and a lot of elbow grease to remove the swirls left by the brush and to make the finish "slicker" and smoother. There were a lot of spots on the table that were hard to rub over initially but with continued rubbing they got slicker. One coat made the table a little better and definitely showed a lot of promise, so I applied a second coat and my husband buffed that by hand for me. And finally a third coat, buffed initially with the brush then followed with a terry cloth bonnet on a buffer. This seemed to be the best way to polish this wax and has left the table looking amazing. My only concern it it tends to smear when touched or rubbed with a dry cloth, which of course isn't good at all, so I'm looking for a solution to this problem. I love the way the wax looks on the table though. It's a deep, soft shine which looks fantastic.

good stuff. been using it for over 30 years.