Waxing Your Thread

[fredk]

Pine tar? or Pine Resin? Over here they are very different

Anyway, thanks. I'm about to order 500g of Pine Resin

[TomE]

30 minutes ago, fredk said:

Pine tar? or Pine Resin? Over here they are very different

Anyway, thanks. I'm about to order 500g of Pine Resin

She said pine tar, but I'll confirm that.  The Bickmore product is pine tar.

1 hour ago, Aven said:

Sorrell Notions has summer and winter coad.  The winter coad is soft and the summer coad is hard so it doesn't melt when using.   It's used for sewing uppers to soles.

It's also called hand wax.

Thanks.  Will check this out.

 

[ScottWolf]

If anyone wants to make their own, the recipe I posted for a DIY leather conditioner in the forum here will work with the addition of the Pine Rosin. Beeswax and pine rosin is also used for Food cloth wraps, so exact recipes should be easy to find on the web. Pine rosin can be bought off of Amazon. You'll have to crush it if you get the rock version prior to melting it and mixing with the beeswax or you can buy pre made blocks sold as cloth food wrap kits. Also, beeswax and pine rosin sticks are used extensively in Baseball and are tacky but doesnt discolor anything. It's often referred to as "bat wax". You just need to make sure its bat wax, as they also sell sticks that are close to pure pine tar and they will discolor thread, etc

[SUP]

Found a nifty little tool on Temu recently, for waxing thread as you use it. No idea how it will work for those of you working on larger projects, but for me, with my small projects, it works fine.

You get it with white and yellow wax and cost me less than a $1.5.

Making those little discs of wax should be simple for those who want their own mix in there. I though the container is useful.

 

[chuck123wapati]

i collected about a cup of pine sap last year to make glue as the native Americans did. They melt it and mix it with rabbit pellets. it creates a hot melt glue that they used or many things including attaching their arrow heads. I guess I should have collected more for sewing.

[TomE]

On 12/9/2023 at 4:20 PM, Aven said:

Sorrell Notions has summer and winter coad.  The winter coad is soft and the summer coad is hard so it doesn't melt when using.   It's used for sewing uppers to soles.

It's also called hand wax.

Great information.  Here's a DIY video for making coad. I've got to try this!

 

[fredk]

7 hours ago, SUP said:

Found a nifty little tool on Temu recently, for waxing thread as you use it. No idea how it will work for those of you working on larger projects, but for me, with my small projects, it works fine.

You get it with white and yellow wax and cost me less than a $1.5.

Making those little discs of wax should be simple for those who want their own mix in there. I though the container is useful.

 

I've got one of those thingmebobs* but I've sort of lost it

*a technical term

[SUP]

@fredk LOL sounds familiar. I have made my reputation by losing a huge role of paper.  I keep all small thingamabobs below 1-2 inches in size in one box - of which hubby knows the location. So things are getting lost less often. 

@TomE I have to try that! 

[SUP]

Are resin and rosin two names for the same thing or are they different things entirely?

[fredk]

30 minutes ago, SUP said:

Are resin and rosin two names for the same thing or are they different things entirely?

They are the same, but rosin is dried into cakes but resin may still be liquid

yaaaay, I've found it! You'll never believe where it was. It was in my ready-use sewing kit. Who would have thunk it. I wonder who put it there?