Beeswax value?

[rockrat]

Wondering what beeswax is worth nowadays. Was at a farmers market and a local honey seller had beeswax for sale. He said it was $0.40 an ounce, but in quantity, it would be alot less (probably $2.50-$3.00 a pound). Is this a decent price or not? Thanks

[Blammer]

$3.00 a pound is good deal if the was is clean.

PERSONALLY, if you use beeswax get a good stock of it NOW because there probably will be a limited supply for a year or so because of the recent bee epidemic, killing a LOT of honey bees.

[crabo]

My wife raises bees and has 4 hives. She says I can have the wax. Is that a deal or what?!

[Jim]

I'd say $.40/lb. is a REAL good deal. At that price, I'd like to find 20 or so pounds of it.

[trooperdan]

Jim, that was .40 AN OUNCE!

[44man]

I have seen it at shoots going for $9 a pound.

[BOOM BOOM]

HI,
Some bee hives have died out here in Provo. Friend who is a beekeeper lost his hives last year. He got a wild hive for a restart luckly.

[Jim]

Thanks for the correction, Troop. I was asleep!

[Ricochet]

Having reactivated my old pipe smoking habit now that the kids are grown, I'm starting to play with meerschaums. Discovered that the surface finish on those is beeswax. The holes in the pipe bowl are corked, and the whole thing's dipped and soaked in melted beeswax. The pretty white new ones are coated with white bleached beeswax. Starting with yellow beeswax (or rewaxing with it) helps with the desired color change that occurs in use. (From heat and oxidation slightly, mostly from tarry liquids seeping through the porous material and collecting under the wax on the outer surface.)

Just a bit of beeswax trivia, another use for it I hadn't known about. :-D

(Briars and vulcanite or ebonite pipe stems are waxed with carnauba. Comes off if you disinfect an old pipe stem with alcohol and leaves the surface dull, as I've discovered. Has to be reapplied.)

[carpetman]

Ricochet--I am told that meerschaum means foam of the sea in German.