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cooking pitch
wolfsire:
--- Quote from: recurve shooter on July 22, 2009, 05:31:40 pm ---i may be wrong here, but i think that the grease/oil/wax are all interchangeable. i think he meant that the persentage of whichever of those substances you choose should be droped down to around 5 percent. im not sure about the charcoal
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Recurve shooter is right.
I wont go into the degree to which other materials can replace charcoal, but as you can see from Jackcrafty's pix, charcoal is not essential. Conversely can be used in abundance. I have not tried any amount of charcoal over 50%, but 25-50% is fine. IIRC, I've only used oil separated from salad dressing, lol, but I now other have used animal fats.
I typically mix equal parts of sap and charcoal, then add a dash of bees wax. If it is too soft, I add more sap and charcoal. If I want the strength of fiber, I add enough to get the consistancy I want, which will depend on the kind of fiber. I prefer 3mm bits of sisal stands becauce I read a couple engineering reports about the effectiveness of that material and size for concrete and baked clay ... and it is not poop. But crumbled herbavore waste gets you small fibers. I don't know what else is in the poop or whether it has any impact on the pitch.
There are all different kinds of recipes. Undoubtely some are better for different uses and climates. As long as you don't overcook, generally it is pretty easy to fix a batch by adding more stuff of one kind or another.
mullet:
The resin, by itself, and wrapped with sinew works. The point only has to stay on till it is in the meat. The people using stone points in ancient times probally didn't cry about a lost point as much as we do.
recurve shooter:
true that. i think that i'll use epoxy!
sailordad:
--- Quote from: recurve shooter on July 22, 2009, 11:30:12 pm ---true that. i think that i'll use epoxy!
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epoxy? seriously?
you wont be able readjust them once it sets up,and good luck removing them if you ever want to switch them
recurve shooter:
hey, i never claimed i knew what i was talking about! :-X
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