Antique Paste Can I Make It At Home?

[BigLoop22]

Hello, everyone!

I have been lurking around this site for a while. There is a lot of good information here, and a bunch of friendly people, too. chancey77 & Sylvis, thanks for sharing the information about Dr. Chase's book. I found some digital copies, here:

http://www.archive.org/details/drchasesrecipeso00chasiala

...and, here:

http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/books/book_22.cfm

Shawn

[HellfireJack]

Don't they have Sno-Seal in Finland? I figured they'd have that there.

[Suicide]

Don't they have Sno-Seal in Finland? I figured they'd have that there.

A lot of places. For instance....

I just wandering if "antique paste" is not the same as "waterproof finish" (not "finNish" heh )

[chancey77]

It may be different, but lets see how it can be tweaked. Might get a Pitch blend recipe out of if . I think all the wax in it may keep it from setting on the top layer. Also, I don't believe 100 years ago they called it Antique Paste, maybe they just called it Dye/Waterproofing paste?

[chancey77]

http://www.archive.org/stream/drchasesrecipes01chas#page/n9/mode/2up

[Go2Tex]

Well, first of all, thanks for reminding us of how nice it is to live in a free enterprise capitalist country like the US without all those enviro-nazi restrictions on everything.... yeah right. That being said, I've always suspected that antique paste was little more than shoe polish anyhow. Try a little tan shoe polish and see how it works.

But since this is a big project and cost is no object, why not just pay the cost of shipping for antique and tack it on the cost to the customer?

[oldtimer]

You can try this company in Sweden : http://www.tjaderlader.se/shop/ or

How much do you need ? I could buy it for you and ship, (but there will be shipping costs for two separate shippings)

/ Knut

Edited January 27, 2012 by oldtimer

[rikbik]

Sent to me from SYLVIA.

Be careful what you ask for you might get it. I found this recipe in an OLD OLD book, called Dr. Chase's Recipes.

Water Proof paste.

1 lb Tallow (rendered beef fat)

1/2 lb Bees Wax

1/2 pint Neatsfoot oil

1/2 lb of Rosin (pine tree pitch)

lampblack for color. But I would use artists oil paint to color it brown/tan.

Mix until well combined over heat. Pour into a good container and allow to solidify

I AM CERTAINLY GOING TO TRY THIS! 1/8 AT FIRST:)

I WILL POST PICS THIS WEEK AND A FULL CRITIQUE:)

This seems like a great Pitch Blend concoction.

I am looking for a waterproof antique method myself. Did you or anybody try this recipe?

I love the looks of Eco Flow gel antique on the bare leather but even with a good finnish, it gets washed away from within when the leather is soaked (see attachement).

Applied onto a finish it does not look good at all. In Holland there is no Wyo-sheen or anything like that available, as far as I know.

Edited May 5, 2012 by rikbik

[chancey77]

I did end up trying what I thought would be very similar.

Antique wood wax about 2-6 tbl spoons

1-3 tblsp Neatsfoot oil Basic 50/50 mix or you could try 75 wax/25 oil, it might work as well.

And enough black dye to make it all black/brown/red/blue/green...whatever color you want.

Heated on the stove in an old metal pot for 3 bucks from the junk store.

And I have to say it was pretty spot on!!!!!!!!

I have also tried just shoe polish before, it did work but it gets hard and crumbles.

The mix with the neatsfoot oil seemed to work the best.

I still have not tried the Dr. Chase recipe yet, but one day I will.

Until then I will stick with the antique wood wax recipe I listed above. Since they won't ship Feibings to Finland!!!!!!!

I don't use anything like that very often so small batches is fine by me:)

[Sylvia]

LOL I had forgotten about this thread.