remove wax from bought wood?

[preprius]

I bought some turners sqares 2x2x 12 exotic woods that were sealed with wax. 

I scraped off all posible wax using a paint scraper. Next I sanded the side smooth. Wax just fills sand paper. 

1) What is best method of removing all wax?

Also these are not square. I don't have a table saw or bandsaw. 

My brand new drum sander get 2 sides parallel but not 90 deg. 

My intent is to attempt to make 3d things. 

2) how make each 2x2  square?

Edited January 6 by preprius

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

See turners do not care about the wax or the squareness because they turn that stuff off and make round and other shapes. Without basic tools like a tablesaw or bandsaw it is not easy but use of a sharp plane and a shooting board you can do it. The idea is to get one side flat and go from there.  Many videos on utube showing this.

Edited January 6 by JTTHECLOCKMAN

[Wichman]

I looked at the picture of your shop with drum sander in the foreground, is this the extent of your tools so far?

Is the shaft of your drill press threaded or a Morse taper?

One way to square your pieces is to build a jig to feed through the drum sander. A U shaped channel with a stop at the end. You could use 1 x 2's as the uprights. If I were building a jig like this I would use a 3/4 plywood base as wide as the sander, and about 6" longer at each end of sanded piece. I would position the uprights diagonally across the width of the base. Even wear of the sandpaper and decreased chance of accidents are my reasoning.

There is a tool known as the safe t planer that is used for guitar work. I would not use one with a Morse taper drill press. But it is an option.

[Roberta Moreton]

A card scraper with the wood in a vice. 
 

[preprius]

Hi all,

thanks for you ideas.  

Here is how I solved it.  I used a paint scraper to get most wax off. 

Then I had remembered I had a cheesy disk / belt sander.  I don't  like the disk sander so I forgot all about it.  But I have many of the pressure adhesive disks.  So I decided to use those to get the wax off.  I had to be careful to replace disks often because wax buildup will burn the wood. So throw the waxed disks away.  

I squared up the deck for the disk sander. 

On my new drum sander I went through 3 sanding strips because wax buildup. So I was not thinking of using sanding as a solution.

But when I decided sandpaper works and I had lots of pressure sanding disks not being used, I found the solution.

 

[preprius]

My tools...

Drum sander.

Powered hand skill saw,

trimming router,

powered miter saw. entery level.

Hawk226 scrollsaw. 

decent drillpress. 

Handsaws. 

No hand planes. but makita battery planer. 

lots of clamps. 

and wooden workbench from Harbor freight (outdoor on side yard.)

 

Edited January 13 by preprius

[Wichman]

Do you have one of the sandpaper cleaners? They do work and are inexpensive.

 

[preprius]

yes.  now I have 3 from Harbor freight. The don't take the wax off the sand paper.  They do take the burn marks off.