Unless you're using real wax...pure bees wax or carnauba, which are actually basic to some oldtime stock finishes....virtually every product sold as "wax" today contains oil. Either good old Pennsylvania crude (petroleum) or synthetic (silicone).
I don't want either oil in my wood.
If you have a proper finish, wax is unecessary. If you find wax is necessary to protect your wood, you don't have a proper finish.
JMO.
The latter (highlighted) is especially deleterious to subsequent finishing. Someone said recently that every gun eventually is sold, and that you should keep that in mind when work is done on them. Unless a cased collector piece, I could see most stocks needing a little TLC over their lifetimes. 40 years of woodworking has solidified a conviction that wood and wax go together like oil and water. For the sake of the next guy, leave waxing to the moon.
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