As per title really, wife got hot (red!)candle wax on our stained oak table & it’s not a great look, seems to have got in the grain, any bright ideas?

Cheers.

Warm iron and kitchen roll?

Thanks, already tried it with a tea towel & iron, no joy 🙁

turpientine will thin wax so you could try rubbing some in then the iorn again?

ahot or warm iron will just make the wax sink into the wood, try wd40 used sparingly and lots of clean paper towel, try dabbing as opposed to rubbing hard as rubing forces wax into table.

boiling hot water puddle on top of it will warm the wax up and draw it to the surface of the water, then paper towel to soak up.

with it being a flat surface its hard to get the water right using its won surface tension.

Thanks all, will have a pop & report back.

Cheers.

Live with it. Oak tables look much better with a few stains and marks. 🙂

I personally haven’t tried this, however, you could try oxalic acid. It brightens up untreated wood brilliantly, even removing ferrous metal stains. Whether it will work on previously stained and presumably wax finished wood I couldn’t say.

Although I do tend towards

Live with it. Oak tables look much better with a few stains and marks

approach. Unless of course you’re into the clean cut contemporary look…

Nitromors

You’ll need to oil/varnish/whatever the table afterwards anyway whatever you use, so may as well go nuclear to begin with.

tea towel is not the same as kitchen roll. Kitchen roll or brown paper should work quite well. I guess you you try tipping the table up side down onto the chairs so gravity helps a bit.

or pick it out with a pin?

Better than trying to get your wood out of wax I suppose 😯

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Better than trying to get your wood out of wax I suppose

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