Recipe/availability for Repousse Pitch
paul_bi...@excite.com
found several "recipes" for making pitch, but, most of them are from
the early 20th century when materials weren't covered by MSDS sheets
and "bad for you". Everything that I have found generally refers to
"Shoemakers Pitch" or some other type that is impossible to find.
Does anyone out there know where there is a common type of pitch that
can be used for the Repousse recipes as a backer?
Just in case you want to suggest it, I HAVE found a company that
carries red German Pitch but it is over $200 for a lump that won't
quite fill an 8" diameter bowl. Seems expensive to me.
Thanks,
Paul
Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:
First find on Google list for "repousse pitch":
# 6 parts chaser's pitch, 8 parts plaster of Paris or brick dust, 1
part linseed oil or tallow. Source: Metalworking Techniques for
Craftsmen by Oppi Untracht.
# 4 parts roofing tar (the kind roofers melt in tar kettles), 3 parts
pumice powder, 1 part turpentine, 1 part linseed oil. Melt tar in pan,
stir in turps, add pumice. Let a small amount cool and adjust amount
of linseed oil to get desired consistency. Source: My own recipe.
# Equal parts of beeswax and plaster of Paris. This is good for very
thin, fully annealed non-ferrous metal worked shallowly. Again, my
recipe.
When mixing any of the recipes for pitch, remember that some or all of
the materials may be flammable and take appropriate precautions with
regard to open flame, etc. It's a good idea to keep in mind that hot
pitch sticks to you and keeps on burning much longer than is bearable,
too.
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Bruce-in-Bangkok
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paul_bi...@excite.com
Thanks for the recipes, but, I already have them. The problem that I
am running into is finding any business that carries (and sells)
chaser's pitch OR the roofing tar listed in these recipes.
Know of any handy sources?
Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:
>Bruce,
>
>Thanks for the recipes, but, I already have them. The problem that I
>am running into is finding any business that carries (and sells)
>chaser's pitch OR the roofing tar listed in these recipes.
>
>Know of any handy sources?
>
>Paul
>
Roofing tar has been an asphalt "tar" for at least the past 40 - 50
years and I suspect that is what is intended.
I have no idea where you are but can you try some roofing contractors.
Certainly they would know where some could be obtained, it is still
used.
Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:
>Bruce,
>
>Thanks for the recipes, but, I already have them. The problem that I
>am running into is finding any business that carries (and sells)
>chaser's pitch OR the roofing tar listed in these recipes.
>
>Know of any handy sources?
>
>Paul
>
Try
http://www.sacredplaces.org/PSP-InfoClearingHouse/articles/Building%20Components.htm
for more details of roofing.
Trevor Jones
> Bruce,
>
> Thanks for the recipes, but, I already have them. The problem that I
> am running into is finding any business that carries (and sells)
> chaser's pitch OR the roofing tar listed in these recipes.
>
> Know of any handy sources?
>
> Paul
Home Depot. Ask at the building supplies desk.
Roofing, in the Yellow Pages.
Expect to buy a five gallon bucket, and have to deal with getting it out.
Or drop by a construction or road repair site. Keep your eyes peeled
for a smoking kettle of tar, and have a steel bucket with a lid that
seals on hand.
Cheers
Trevor Jones
Mike Graf
tar description.
Are you thinking coal tar pitch, or asphalt. If asphalt are you using a
formula for low slope, steep or steep/steep application?
Different melting points and solid consistency for each.
As to a source you could try a roofing company or supply house catering
to the "hot mop" crowd. Around here the road repair crews also use
melted asphalt poured our of a watering type can to seal cracks.
Mike Graf
Paul K. Dickman
Prepared black (asphalt) pitch is usually fairly soft and sticky.
Red pitch is made from pine pitch, can be had in soft, medium and hard.
Red pitch is more expensive, and harder to find but lasts longer and works
better.
http://www.northwestpitchworks.com/home_main.html
If you want to go the cheap route, Find someone doing hot mop tar roofing.
You can't miss them, they'll have a giant propane kettle melting blocks of
asphalt and be toting it up to the roof in 5gal steel pails.
Show up with your own pail and a sixpack and mooch a gallon or two. The
stuff is hard as flint when it cools , so follow the recipes in the other
posts.
Also, realize that you do not need a layer of pitch much deeper than you
need your workpiece to be.
The bottom of my 8" pitch bowl has an inch and a half of lead topped with
two inches of pitch. I probably could have used less pitch.
Paul K. Dickman
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jpol...@rgs.uci.edu
hard modeling clay/non-hardening plasticine clay would work well. It's
cheap and should provide enough support. You can get hard/medium/soft
varieties, too.
Hopefully someone has tried it and can say if it's actually useful or
not.
