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Collecting pitch ?

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Pat B:
Gooey sap makes gooey pitch glue.
 Jerry, look for old scars on pines(spruce, fir, etc.) with hard, brittle pitch on it. The turps have naturally flashed off leaving the hard stuff.

Hawkdancer:
I did collect a bunch of dry, hard stuff during JW's Turkey Hunt a couple years ago, that gets made into glue this winter, I hope.  Let nature do the dangerous work, I guess.  We moved away from the Front Range, and I have to find the old pines, besides the ones on my place.  Big fires don't help much, either.  One of our friends lost his place in the Cameron Peak fire. 
Hawkdancer

Allyn T:
So if you get dry sap do you still melt it down and add charcoal?

Pat B:
Yes, and bees wax. The bees wax makes hard, brittle pitch malleable without being sticky unless heated. The finely ground charcoal adds body to the mix. 

Allyn T:
Two questions one can I substitute beeswax with tallow and two I can use this to glue on points and fletching?

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