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paulc:
Hey All, I know this has been discussed before  but I can not find the thread...can someone direct me to a thread on how to cook pine pitch.  Or tell me how...?  TIA, Paul C

mullet:
 Paul, the easiest way I've found to collect pine resin is to boil it. I put pieces of heart pine, lighter knot, in boiling water. As the resin floats to the top, I take a stick and just keep swirling it around in it and dipping it in cool water. It will continue to stick and build up on the stick till it looks like a big lollipop.

 When I use it I just heat it till it is sticky and dip in in ashes and use like a glue stick.

Pat B:
Pitch is very volatile!!!  If you cook it, cook it outside. The way Eddie suggests sounds like a very safe way to cook pitch. You can do the same with lumps of hardened pitch.

sailordad:
i take the dried or semi dried chunks of sap off the tree
put inside small can with holes in the bottom,set that on top of another can(double boiler method)
this allows the sap(once its melted)to drip into the lower can as it melts and leaves the debris that was stuck in the sap in the top can
while that is melting i grind some wood charcoal and some dried rabbit dung,grind it as fine as possible,then mix it into the melted sap
and as mentioned before,use a stick to collect it,and yes very volitale

have fun

radius:
um, what's the rabbit dung for?

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