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Pine pitch
Pat B:
We used to find fat lighter "fagots" laying around the woods at our hunt club near Bluffton, SC. We also had the skeletons of big, long leaf yellow pines that were still standing. You could cut a slab from a log an inch thick, hold it towards the sun and see light through it. I has a slab that was almost 4' in diameter and 8" to 10" thick as a table top in my yard down there. Splinter a little off whenever you needed to start a fire. JW, this is the stuff I've mentioned to you. I never tried boiling it.
mullet:
Pat, A buddy of mine down here has made two bows from fence post that were all heart pine. You could hold them up to the sun and see amber light also.
HoBow:
Anyone ever used coffee grounds as a filler?
Pat B:
It would probably work fine Jeff. You want them very dry before you add them to hot pitch! :o
beetlebailey1977:
Well now yall have me planning to go collect some sap now. I have plenty of sources since I cut a few small pines down during the fall and trimmed some limbs. Plus it should be hard and all the turps evaporated out. Got the beeswax also.
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