+1 to this question. I use White Lightning, and it seems to work quite well - the change from smooth to rough is not as sudden as someone described above, but close enough. But it is real easy to apply, as compared to the molten wax method. Similar to Cyccommute, I have childhood memories of setting wax to fire when melting it. Mine are slightly worse, in that I tried to douse the flame by holding the bowl with the burning wax under the kitchen tap. That caused a hell of a splash - I spent an hour scraping up wax from everywhere before my parents came home and found out!