Only one man's opinion of course and well-worth what you're paying for it, but my experience with Peter's recipe has been that the key ingredients are the Venice turps as a drier and the carnauba as the build to a hardshell. Mine works so well that I can't help thinking any hardwre or paint store BL will work fine but considering the quantity of oil needed, I don't think a more highly-refined oil will break the piggy bank. I believe many of us are using "something similar". Recent report from Hansli in Texas states that he increases the proportion of carnauba. I am guilty of the same; accident on first batch for which I wished to halve the quantities but somehow weighed out 200gr. carnauba flakes on my scale rather than 100gr. I've made three other batches for friends and my favorite gun store clerk and stuck with the double dose of hard wax. I always include the original recipe from Salopian and tell my new Slacum convert that he can cut it with more linseed and min spirits if he wishes.
jack
