Making Coad Or Sticky Wax - The Easy Way...

[grmnsplx]

I'll have to try this. Thanks!

[grmnsplx]

Some of you coad eggs are different shades. Are those different ratios of resin to wax?

[Matt T]

Some of you coad eggs are different shades. Are those different ratios of resin to wax?

No. He pulled / stretched and worked that ball longer than the others.

[Martyn]

grmnsplx, MattT is correct. They were all mixed, melted and cast into 4oz cakes at the same time and at that stage, were all exactly the same colour. The cakes were too big though, so I cut them in half and squeezed and kneeded them into 2oz eggs. The action of kneeding and pulling the wax, bleaches it and all the eggs have been worked a bit differently, so they are all all vary in shade.

[grmnsplx]

Ah, I missed that part. Thanks!

[Martyn]

I made an egg-cup. :D

I wasn't going to show this cos it's really not very good, but I figure what the hell. You have to show the rough with the smooth right?

It was a load of firsts. First time making a leather container, first time doing herringbone stitch, first time doing box stitch (the bottom is all over the place, it's really bad), first time doing basket stamping (or any tooling for that matter). But the box is functional. The every bit of detritus on my worktop was sticking to my sticky egg. It was starting to get pebble-dashed with crud. I've learned a lot from making this little box. It was worthwhile. One thing that stumped me though, re the box-stitch, how do you get the awl to exit the base in a neat circle?

 

Edited March 25, 2016 by Martyn

[philg9]

On 3/25/2016 at 9:39 PM, Martyn said:

I made an egg-cup. :D

I wasn't going to show this cos it's really not very good, but I figure what the hell. You have to show the rough with the smooth right?

It was a load of firsts. First time making a leather container, first time doing herringbone stitch, first time doing box stitch (the bottom is all over the place, it's really bad), first time doing basket stamping (or any tooling for that matter). But the box is functional. The every bit of detritus on my worktop was sticking to my sticky egg. It was starting to get pebble-dashed with crud. I've learned a lot from making this little box. It was worthwhile. One thing that stumped me though, re the box-stitch, how do you get the awl to exit the base in a neat circle?

 

Martyn,   all good stuff this,   I make all my own waxes for my harness work,   including the traditional saddlers black pitch wax.   With Coad,  along with the beeswax and pine rosin,  the traditional recipie is to add add some tallow to the mix once melted, it will bring it to that proper thread wax consistency.  I do pourt my Coad mix into warm water, about 25 degrees once its all melted then scoop it out and knead like I do with the black pitch wax, it then comes out at the same consistency.  I find without Tallow, the Coad can be a bit crunchy and can have crystals left in it if it isnt crushed to fine powder first.