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#501438 01/13/18 12:46 PM
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What is the best dressing to use to keep waxed cotton water proof?


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Barbour Thorn Proof......get it from Orvis.

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Or if its a Filson use Filsons wax. The formulas are different, Filsons a little thicker and stiffer on the fabric . Barbour bit easier to apply.

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Thanks guys.


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Cannot find it through a search on Orvis under this name or anything related to wax cotton dressing???


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Disregard!! Google is my friend. Orvis search is not!! Found it - at Orvis, as directed by Google!!! Thanks again for the tip.


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I used a homemade recipe on my chaps and canvas jacket. I like them to be firm and rigid rather than the soft oily texture. It's more of a personal preference, but I find it's better at repelling thorns when it is more heavily waxed. Also drastically cheaper if you have to wax a large amount of fabric.

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I am more concerned with water repellancy than shedding thorns. Thanks again.


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Originally Posted By: fallschirmjaeger
I used a homemade recipe on my chaps and canvas jacket. I like them to be firm and rigid rather than the soft oily texture. It's more of a personal preference, but I find it's better at repelling thorns when it is more heavily waxed. Also drastically cheaper if you have to wax a large amount of fabric.
PLEASE GIVE US THAT RECIPE


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I made my own waxed cotton field jacket 25 years ago. I bought a regular cotton canvas "barn coat", lined with flannel. Then, I ordered two pint cans of Browning DuraWax treatment, melted it in a double boiler, took a new paint brush and saturated the outer layer of the coat with it while hot. It penetrated the cotton canvas perfectly. It has been a great coat for cool rainy weather for many years.

I had already bought my wife a Barbour jacket, but was too cheap to buy one for myself. I like mine better than the Barbour. Total cost was about 50 bucks for the coat and the treatment, and I've got plenty of extra treatment left to last me the rest of my life.

Here's the coat.



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