primitive varnishes/lacquers
I'm interested in using primitive forms of varnishes or lacquers that I can make at home for my custom knife and tomahawk handles. Does anybody have any recipes or links?
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Found you a couple Violinmakers' recipes here, Scott...I've mixed up home-made spirit varnishes (alcohol-based) before with good results, but have never tried making any of the cooked-oil varnishes....
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Thanks Orien... That all seems similar to something I found using pine pitch and alcohol. I like the idea of the knife smelling of pine.....
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Oil is great, but the one key effort few seem to do is fine sand with scouring rush (used in both old & new world), rendered fat,and burnish the wood with a very hard smooth stone, antler, or...
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Straight turpentine will make a good varnish.............if, it is well aged. Keep your eyes open at garage sales, or estate sales for old cans of turpentine. You can tell if it is old by the...
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Copal resin dissolves in alcohol and makes a good varnish. You can buy copal on ebay. Copal is resin that is dug up from the ground. It is resin from rotted trees. It smells like old violins. Bob Berg
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aye Woody, in the ratio 5 parts genuine turpentine, 5 parts linseed oil and 1 part Stockholm tar (pine tar over there I guess) heat it before applying but don't do it inside! (or smoke whilst you are...
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Bookworm, thanks for those links I've been after something like that for years
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