Best Japanning Recipe
Added 2019-07-31 01:46:36 +0000 UTCI have finally found a japanning recipe that I am happy with! Let me take you on a sensual narrated journey through the top 4 recipes I have found and see how to finish a hand plane in the original black japanning.
This video needed to be made, so that we can use the power of the internet to further refine this recipe and technique!
Comments
I believe you mentioned in this or another video that paint thinner doesn't do a very good job on japanning. Can you please share a method for removing old japanning?
Samuel Hays
2022-01-25 22:45:20 +0000 UTCNatural Pigments
Hand Tool Rescue
2019-08-05 04:03:32 +0000 UTCSorry pushed the wrong button. Was wondering where you got that great price on the asphaltum.
2019-08-05 03:42:55 +0000 UTCNo problem! Thanks for supporting me.
Hand Tool Rescue
2019-08-05 03:40:49 +0000 UTCThanks for all the research and information.
2019-08-05 03:39:20 +0000 UTCShhhh....no one can know.
Hand Tool Rescue
2019-08-01 15:54:01 +0000 UTCI'm glad you didn't let out the secret of AMS. (Asphaltum / Maple Syrup) aka Canadianing
2019-08-01 03:31:03 +0000 UTCPlease do! I would try out some japan drier or some rosin for some better cold cure results.
Hand Tool Rescue
2019-08-01 01:27:05 +0000 UTCCool! I really want to get a bag of that asphaltum and start mixing it with various things to see what happens... like try and get a cold cure version to work better...
Clifton Ballad
2019-08-01 01:17:39 +0000 UTCThanks! Too thorough?
Hand Tool Rescue
2019-08-01 00:47:54 +0000 UTCHaha, I should have!
Hand Tool Rescue
2019-08-01 00:47:39 +0000 UTCFantastic. Extremely thorough and answered all the questions i had as well! Great work Eric!
2019-08-01 00:46:29 +0000 UTCExcellent. Thanks for sharing! Looking forward to trying this.
David Campbell
2019-07-31 16:37:25 +0000 UTCJust shorten the name Asphaltum Wipe On Poly to...Ass Wipe
JC1166
2019-07-31 15:46:45 +0000 UTCExactly!
Hand Tool Rescue
2019-07-31 14:16:57 +0000 UTCThank you! Yes, getting it all dissolved is helpful, but too much turpentine thins it out too much. It's just easier not to stir it before use and leave the undissolved asphaltum at the bottom. I chose that consistency based on all the literature. It needs to be thick enough not to run and drip if you were to apply it to vertical surfaces.
Hand Tool Rescue
2019-07-31 14:14:52 +0000 UTCIn our experiements at home, the more asphaltum the better the finish, if you bake it. My wife the chemist ended up mixing it by feel and got a thick, gooey maple syrup consistency for the mix that worked best.
Gene & Linnea
2019-07-31 08:09:16 +0000 UTCBeen looking forward to this piece. I haven't been able to put the kind of research you have done here (that research Ph.D. is showing through), and want to say this is a bigger contribution to the field of tool and metal goods restoration than many will realize. I can't wait to use this on some pending projects. Would you comment more on why you chose the consistency? Watching this carefully, I wonder if the ATB formula might have gone even better with a higher T:A ratio (i.e. more turpentine or less asphaltum), as you mentioned that it didn't seem like all the asphaltum had dissolved.
Marc McKenzie
2019-07-31 06:37:27 +0000 UTCThanks! It's fun.
Hand Tool Rescue
2019-07-31 04:28:46 +0000 UTCVery informative! I’ll have to try this!
2019-07-31 03:44:34 +0000 UTCI want it so dark that it's lighter when I close my eyes.
Hand Tool Rescue
2019-07-31 03:35:20 +0000 UTC“Dark as my soul” would be a hard color to match at the paint store.
2019-07-31 03:26:06 +0000 UTCYou know, that STUFF.
Hand Tool Rescue
2019-07-31 02:39:14 +0000 UTC"Paint thinnery stuff" Nice and scientific =P
2019-07-31 02:27:25 +0000 UTCGo my child, softly into that darkness
Hand Tool Rescue
2019-07-31 01:51:15 +0000 UTC
