Suppliers of Anchorseal or equivalent in Ireland ?
Alun Saunders
Just wondering whether there were any Ireland based woodturners here who could point me in the direction of any sources for timber end sealer, either Anchorseal or Chestnut over here ?
I can order from the UK via www.toolpost.co.uk but they want £21 to deliver £17 worth of sealer !!! Not really very sensible I think you would agree !
Thanks for any leads,
Alun Saunders
Jim M
Wish I could help you on a source closer to where you are. Shipping on
the Anchorseal can be killer. Luckily I live about 40 minutes away and can
pick it up where they make it.
If you go to UC Coatings (maker of Anchor seal) you can contact them and
they might know of a closer distributor to you.
http://www.uccoatings.com/
Hope that helps.
--Jim M.
Steve Tiedman
The wax emulsions (like Anchorseal), as you know, are meant to *slow* the loss of moisture from the end grain of freshly cut wood to help control checking/cracking. While on your local
hunt, stop at a local paint supplier or hardware store that sells paint and ask if they have any small quantities of mis-matched color latex paints (generally water based). Unlike the oil
based enamel paints, normal latex paints do allow a slow migration of moisture through them, similar to the wax emulsions. I've bought quarts of mis-matched paint for less than 20% their
marked retail price. Colors don't matter!
I also think I heard of at least one person who paints on a thin coat of white craft glue. Anyone else hear of this one?
Give it a try, see what happens.
Steve.
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Alun Saunders
"Steve Tiedman" <s...@mninter.net> wrote in message news:3E452386...@mninter.net...
> The wax emulsions (like Anchorseal), as you know, are meant to *slow* the loss of moisture from the end grain of freshly cut wood to help control checking/cracking. While on your local
> hunt, stop at a local paint supplier or hardware store that sells paint and ask if they have any small quantities of mis-matched color latex paints (generally water based). Unlike the oil
> based enamel paints, normal latex paints do allow a slow migration of moisture through them, similar to the wax emulsions. I've bought quarts of mis-matched paint for less than 20% their
> marked retail price. Colors don't matter!
>
> I also think I heard of at least one person who paints on a thin coat of white craft glue. Anyone else hear of this one?
>
> Give it a try, see what happens.
Thanks Steve, I'd vaguely heard of using latex paints before, but couldn't find any references to it. I've also located a few stockists of the end sealer made by Chestnut Products in the UK, and as I'm over there visiting (to pick up a few Sycamore logs from my father-in-law !) in a couple of weeks I may buy a can or two to bring back with me.
Alun
Chuck
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>> I also think I heard of at least one person who paints on a thin coat =
>of white craft glue. Anyone else hear of this one?
>>=20
>> Give it a try, see what happens.
>
>Thanks Steve, I'd vaguely heard of using latex paints before, but =
>couldn't find any references to it.
I have used latex paint, purchased at Lowe's for $2/gal. for mis-mixed
colors. I might as well have painted it with watercolors, to be
perfectly honest. I painted it liberally on box elder, one of the
more stable woods I've worked with, and it split like a boxer's
eyebrows.
I have heard of folks using thinned white glue, which would probably
be more effective than latex paint. Even parrafin wax (canning wax),
melted in an old electric frying pan with the wood ends dipped into it
would likely work better than latex paint.
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Colin Walker
Hi Alun
Getting woodturning supplies in Ireland is near impossible and like
you say postage from UK is a rip off.
I use candle wax available in Ennis at 5 euro a kilo, it works fine
for me.
Goto http://www.artandcraft.ie/craft/ for the online shop.
Kip055
>melted in an old electric frying pan with the wood ends dipped into it
>would likely work better than latex paint.
Paraffin does work pretty well. A slow cooker ("crock pot") is safer to melt
the wax than an electric skillet (which can get pretty hot. You can paint on
the hot wax as well as dip the wood ends into it.
Kip Powers
Rogers AR
Alun Saunders
"Colin Walker" <colw...@eircom.net> wrote in message news:6155806c.03020...@posting.google.com...
Colin,
I'm off to the UK in a few weeks time anyway to visit the in-laws, with the ulterior motive that my father-in-law has just felled a large Sycamore in his back garden (!), and am going to try and pick up a 5 litre can of Chestnut end seal at a woodturning suppliers near where they live while I'm there.
Like you say, getting hold of woodturning supplies here, or in fact *anything* which is considered even vaguely out of the ordinary or unusual usually involves getting it from the UK or further afield by mail-order. I guess there just isn't the market here to warrant setting up a home-grown supplier.
Alun