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Pine Pitch Varnish

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neuse:
Oh, did not know rosin was pitch.
Always learning.

JackCrafty:
Names for pine pitch that you can buy:

Hard Pitch:
Bow Rosin (for violin bows)
Cake Rosin
Pharmaceutical Rosin
Gum Rosin (for soap making)
"Rock" style pine gum/rosin/resin
Solid Soldering Flux Rosin

Fossil/Buried Pitch:
Copal (used for varnish in late 19th and early 20th c.)
Subfossil Copal
Young Amber (another name for copal)
Kauri Gum
Amber


Soft Pitch:
"Pebble" style pine gum/rosin/resin
Colophony
Pine Gum
Brewer's Pitch

Liquid Pitch:
Pine Tar (extracted by heating pine wood)

Sometimes the pitch that I call "soft pitch" above will be very hard but it's a crap shoot.   It's hard to tell when you by it through mail order.  Brewer's pitch, however, is always very soft.

neuse:
Very nice Patrick. Lots of good and new info.

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