Where to get pure turpentine ?

[beesbepleased]

Pure turpentine (for beeswax polish) is quite hard / expensive to get hold of. Anyone know of any online or local (midlands) suppliers ? I'm only after a litre or 2

 

[drstitson]

ebay? amazon?

 

[Firefly]

Our local (Shipston-on-Stour), independent hardware store sold us 5L to split between 5 of us. It's true that it's expensive - hence the development of so many "turps substitutes"

 

[Thymallus]

Just bought 500ml off ebay, £8.10p including postage.
Thrones have it but their postage is expensive.
You sometimes find art suppliers have stocks.

 

[mbc]

I get mine from C Wynne Jones at a very reasonable price, they also have tins, labels and carnuba wax.

 

[Tim1606]

I get mine from C Wynne Jones at a very reasonable price, they also have tins, labels and carnuba wax.

Best value i have found for turpentine

 

[stoneleighhouse]

turpentine

sent you a pm

 

[Thymallus]

Just bought 500ml off ebay, £8.10p including postage.

A word of warning ....DO NOT buy this stuff from that link I gave to an e-bayer selling Rustins Pure Turpentine. I've just used some and there appears to be summat wrong with the stuff.........
Following my usual recipe with bees wax and Carnauba I ended up with a very runny very loose set. Unlike my usual nice hard polish set.
Initially I thought I'd might have mis-weighed the wax, so re-liquified and dissolved in some more bees wax....result a wrinkled soft set mush.....

Oh well that was £8 down the drain and some lost time. Hopefully this post might save a few of you from making the same mistake.
Caveat emptor