Wax Tablet Case

[tashabear]

I wanted to add black to the beeswax but the only thing I had on hand was black watercolor and when added to the hot wax it just beaded up on the bottom of the pan and did not mix, the reading I did suggested lamp black. Is bone black a powder?

Yup: http://naturalpigments.com/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=480-40S

You can get lamp black from the same source: http://naturalpigments.com/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=480-50S

Edited July 14, 2009 by tashabear

[jana]

Thank you Tashabear, that is what I need!

[tashabear]

Thank you Tashabear, that is what I need!

Google is my bitch!

(I should just make that a sig line...)

[Suze]

A HOOBAH from the Midrealm.....

I want.

So what are your duties - New Baronial Arts and Science Champion (ours has to make a project for the Barony)

[jana]

A HOOBAH from the Midrealm.....

I want.

LOL It needs to stick around for Kingdom A&S in October....

So what are your duties - New Baronial Arts and Science Champion (ours has to make a project for the Barony)

The same, Along with helping co-ordinate A&S night each month and Co-autocrating next years event. There are murmurs about having a competition between the Baronial Champions at Kingdom A&S... So far just murmurs

Edited July 14, 2009 by jana

[fishguy]

Actually if you want to get really hardcore about the lampblack there is a method I saw on a video that demonstrated methods used to make india ink. They had shallow dishes of canola oil with a wick. The wick was lit and the dish loosely covered with a ceramic pot to catch the soot. I have no idea how long this takes, and of course you need to be careful of fire danger. However, they were harvesting pretty big quantities of soot (what lampblack is). Bone black mixed very readily with the beeswax and I imagine lamp black will do the same. It is probably the same pigment in your water color, but the binder in the watercolor is not miscible with the wax.

Have fun, took me a while to get the hang of pouring those things and getting a nice level surface, preheating the frames helped a bit. Yet another thing that was an everyday object for thousands of years, that most people don't have a clue about today.