Well they have these woodcraft stores around here and they sell 100% pure tung oil. That is a very easily applied finish. You can finish with it without cutting it with nothing and that is how I do it, but it take sometimes 2 weeks to a month to cure. Course any other oil finish is pretty easy to apply, but the ones you find in lowes and home depot stores are not even close to natural with all the chemical solvents in them. You can find pure beeswax if you look around. In some craft stores like michaels they sometimes have beeswax with all the candle making stuff. But it's like 20 bucks a block. I found a good amount of beeswax at this store called jungle jims which sells mostly international foods mostly. You can buy a block there for about 3 dollars, I think some local bee keeper makes it. Beeswax makes a good finish, I just read a thread where someone said to that you can mix gum turpentine with beeswax to make a good paste wax out of it. I use it plain though, just melt a little in a small glass jar that is in a pot of shallow boiling water. Soak some cheese cloth in the beeswax, just to make it easier to get the cheese cloth saturated in beeswax. I actually let it cool down a bit before I rub my bow down with it. It you just melt beeswax and put it on the bow, it can harden up in little clumps that you either have to heat the bow to let in sink in (which is probably the best way to apply wax to a bow, it's just not the way I do it), or scrap off, or rub really really hard for hours. Anyway, I just let the beeswaxed cheese cloth cool down first and then rub the bow down with it until there is a really think layer of beeswax, very thin not caked on there or nothing. And then rub down with clean cheese cloth, and there is your finish, really easy. You should sand to 600 grit and then burnish with a glass bottle really good in preparation though if you want it to shine like glass.
