Miscellaneous & Workshop for Woodworking & Timber in Namibia

Maintenance economics: our furniture oil in light and dark grades, by the 25-litre for the contract trade — the lodge with two hundred pieces of oiled furniture maintains on a schedule, and the maintenance company that owns that schedule buys drums, not bottles. The catalogue’s 330 ml retail size serves the householder from the same stock.

Fine grades for finishing: 00–0000 territory for cutting back between coats and burnishing waxes — coarse wool belongs at the stripping bench only. The discipline is contamination: steel fragments left in open grain rust under water-based finishes, so vacuum after wooling and keep bronze wool in mind for marine-adjacent work.

As the final voice, thinly: Woodoc Antique Wax over sealed or oiled surfaces, applied sparingly, allowed to haze, buffed patiently — building sheen through coats rather than thickness in one. On period pieces it feeds and protects without the plastic gloss that announces a bad restoration. Fine steel wool application gives the softest lustre.

Weekly and simple: blow down, then WD-40 wiped over unpainted cast surfaces and slides — the dust here is abrasive and the dry air swings still find ways to spot cast iron overnight in winter. Wax the tables monthly for feed and protection. The routine costs ten minutes and keeps second-hand machine value in the country where it belongs.