Wax covered Mallet

[brian_j_roth]

Picked up a Harris Tools 30 oz mallet the other day, and it is covered with a thick coat of wax, almost like a candle wax. Wood is NOT lingum vitea (sp) and is tauted as being check-resistant. I know the wax is there to reduce mositure transfer, but should some of it be removed? Running a thumbnail across it lifts flakes off. I'm wondering if this would flake off and get on the wood and bench, interfering with a finish.

[Jay Pique]

I'd take it off before I used it. It's gonna come off over time anyhow.

JP

[mac davis]

My guess is that it's to protect it until use, like grease on a gun...

I'd get rid of the wax before I used it, for sure.. Mac