Antique Paste Can I Make It At Home?

[ironhead13]

enter resting.... got any pics of it used?

[chancey77]

enter resting.... got any pics of it used?

I'll dig in the boxes 2morrow and try to find the test pieces.

[LuisPaulo]

Wow....

Here in my country I have some problems to import things. Actually the taxes are so high that turns prohibitive to import some itens.

I'm looking for a recipe like this for a long time.

Thanks thanks....and.... thanks !!

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[rikbik]

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.

Really? Isn't it easy to wipe out of the embossed areas?

I tried a version of Dr. Chase's recipe but used a dark pigment in stead of lamp black: doesn't work, crumbles out of the embossing. Oil paints should be better to my feeling.

But I now got a powder of a fiend which produces very nice and - he says - waterproof result. He gets it from Italy and it might contain - or just be - asphalt powder (the stuff that is being used in etching so an artist shop might sell it). Needs to be dissolved with turpentine to a paste, so that sounds quite waterproof ! I will test it soon.

I also came across this funny recipe, but I am not sure this will produce good results: http://www.ehow.com/...uing-stain.html

Edited May 11, 2012 by rikbik

[Sylvia]

I also came across this funny recipe, but I am not sure this will produce good results: http://www.ehow.com/...uing-stain.html

Uh... that is a Vinegaroon recipe. It produces a black color on veg tanned leather. It is NOT an antique but a type of dye.... well not really because it works by a chemical reaction between the Tannin in the Leather and the V'roon.

It does produce good results if you want something black.

Watch this to see.

[chancey77]

No it worked pretty good and didn't crumble, the wood antique is bees wax, it came out pretty good I must say.

But I would be interested to see how this powder your buddy makes works as well.

[rikbik]

No it worked pretty good and didn't crumble, the wood antique is bees wax, it came out pretty good I must say.

But I would be interested to see how this powder your buddy makes works as well.

Do you have some pictures of the result? I am quite curious!

The powder works well, I will show pictures later.

[rikbik]

Before I took this shot I buffed it with wax and the wax would take some of the dark colour, so I was not soooo happy about that. But I will test it more thoroughly in the next few days.

[rikbik]

This stuff is hard to handle on bigger surfaces. I easily get stains, so I gave up on it.

[LuisPaulo]

Too bad to know that...

So....The search continues