The Art of Polishing a Beeswax block

When my wax block got a blue ribbon, the judge wrote on her card, "Needs to be polished." Who knew? I seriously thought that the only requirements were that the block not have unfiltered junk in the wax and that it be a solid, uncracked block (a hard thing to accomplish).

After googling polishing wax and reading through a lot of sites with the keywords, I finally found two sites that suggest that finished beeswax be polished with nylon pantyhose.

I put a knee-high stocking on my hand and tried it out on the wax block. The first picture is how I polished it - the second shows the gleaming results.

Wait until next year...