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Lucasade:
Our local butcher is going to more or less give me some beef fat to render down into tallow. How much fat will I need to produce a sensible amount of tallow?

Put another way, how much tallow do you need to mix with how much beeswax to finish a bow?

JW_Halverson:

--- Quote from: Lucasade on April 28, 2016, 11:57:59 am ---Our local butcher is going to more or less give me some beef fat to render down into tallow. How much fat will I need to produce a sensible amount of tallow?

Put another way, how much tallow do you need to mix with how much beeswax to finish a bow?

--- End quote ---

A couple of tablespoons, maybe.

Buck67:
The best tallow comes from lamb kidney fat.  It is hard white and flakey.  Put in a tall pot full of water over a fire OUTSIDE.  After it comes to a rolling boil take the pot off the fire and leg it cool.  When it comes to room temperature there will be a hard white disc floating on top and nasty water below. Scrape off any discoloration from the underside of the tallow.  Store in a plastic container in the fridge.  Keeps forever.

mullet:
You can make it from just about any animal fat. I think it depends on how good you render it.

I hunted for 9 days in Kentucky once with a bow I didn't have time to seal and it started to rain the first day we got there. I started cutting fat off of a deer that my buddy had shot and saving the drippings from the Breakfast bacon. I filtered it all through coffee filters and rubbed it into my Osage bow and it worked great for the entire hunting trip.

I had a heck of a time de-greasing it when we got home, so I could "properly" seal it with Modern plastic.

sleek:
I use 2/3 deer tallow and 1/3 bees wax to seal my hunting bow. I have on the occasion rubbed citronella candel wax on it too.

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