Edge paint

[garypl]

On 5/19/2018 at 3:20 AM, charon said:

Thanks for your suggestion Harry. So we‘re back at doing heat treatment to the edges. As I said in my first post I‘m not willing to spend $2000 for an iron thats basically a modified soldering iron with a tip that looks like a pocket knife, just because some French company said it costs like that. Is there an alternative? Normal soldering irons can be adjusted from 150C to 400C, shouldn‘t that do the job as well? Just need a tip then...

I use a pallet knife (used for painting) and heat it with an alcohol lamp - works pretty good to smooth the Giardini paint.

Gary

[immiketoo]

Speaking of edge paint

[BDAZ]

24 minutes ago, immiketoo said:

Speaking of edge paint

 

Amazing! It looks vulcanized!

Bob

[RockyAussie]

16 hours ago, Geoff said:

Having read through this thread (thanks for the info) I think I will get Giardini product.

I am mainly making wallets and knife pouches by hand, and will be using a conical hand applicator. Do I get the the dense or semi dense?

You can use both but they recommend semi dense for hand application is better and dense is preferable with machinery but also can use either.