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Spray Japanning?

🕑 Added 2021-11-24 14:55:35 +0000 UTC

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John willis

HTR, I live in Japan and my students use the the traditional extremely black pigment ink for calligraphy - i assume this is the basis (or a similar a derivative) for traditional Japanning. Would supplying you with a “classroom” size bottle of this special pigment ink be useful? I will comment to you about this in a newer thread sometime soon as well.

Stu @ Yellow Mug Inc Studio

This is a glorious mix and process.... I have just the crazy item to try it on!

Jeff LeBell

if your having problems with the stuff staining your hands, try getting some worx hand cleaner. It's great stuff. That with a little dish soap usually takes whatever garbage gets on my hands. it works great for automotive paint, as well as the concrete chemicals i am around every day.

Gene & Linnea

Eric, when is your book coming out, where you gather the gems of knowledge you have accumulated like the hoarder of knowledge you are?

Hand Tool Rescue

Doesn't really matter, honestly.

What! A new video!?

Something

Are the measurements by weight or volume?

Steve Seidel

Gracias, Lord Canuck.

Hand Tool Rescue

Back now?

Hand Tool Rescue

If you add spar varnish to the mix, it makes it matte.

RedWraith

Same for me, video is private for some reason.

I cannot see the spray japaning video. It says that its "private".

Steve Seidel

Hey! The video disappeared before I had a chance to watch it.

Marc McKenzie

Eric, every new video and project you do is a gem - hope I can try this in 2022!

Is there a video series being made on the restoration of this plane? If so can you point me to the link? Great set of craftsman in on this collaboration and I’d love to see their contributions.

Is Japanning always a gloss sheen? I wonder how one could go about making a matte finish…

Hand Tool Rescue

I need one!

Hand Tool Rescue

Natural Pigments online is where I got mine.

Hand Tool Rescue

320 grit.

Hand Tool Rescue

Yes, exactly.

Hand Tool Rescue

Always.

Ampws

Frank used to work at Roneo-Vickers, back in the late 50's he had a friend whose granddad used to work for Ford. Apparently they used to keep huge oil drums full of the jappanning mix made up, as long as the barrels were turned reguarly the mix would not settle and thus stay fluid. He reckoned that they used a lot of turpentine and that the workers could tell if a barrel was properly mixed by the smell alone. I wonder how high the workers got as protective gear was non-existent. I do not remember the ratio's but I think that the ashphaltum was roughly a quarter so you are correct as far as I can tell.