Give Your Canvas Bag a Wax Finish for Added Water Resistance

Treating canvas with wax for water resistance goes back hundreds of years and while modern fabrics and chemical treatments have mostly made this method obsolete, if you have a canvas bag you may wish to consider it for both the utility and the antiquated look the process gives to the bag.

Photography blogger Allen Mowry shares the method he used to turn a cheap canvas messenger bag into a one-of-a-kind camera bag by adding a DSLR messenger bag insert and giving the bag a wax treatment. Allen wanted a $150 Domke waxed canvas camera bag but decided to save a lot of money by simply melting a package of paraffin wax in a double-boiler and brushing the wax onto the surface of the bag after the wax melted. Following that he placed the bag in an old pillowcase and ran it through his clothes dryer at high heat for fifteen minutes. All in all the project cost him around $50, including the messenger bag.

The result is a bag that looks like it was handed down by your grandparents and sheds most water. Not bad for a cheap block of paraffin.

DIY Waxed Canvas Camera Bag - A Domke Alternative | Allen Mowry via WonderHowTo

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/_1mfFPmRxzg/give-your-canvas-bag-a-wax-finish-for-added-water-resistance

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