Warren
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Nov 16, 2005
- Location
- Sutton, NH
Rich King has mentioned Charbonnel inks in several posts and we even tried it at the last Springfield VT class. but time constraints did not lend themselves to experiment during the class, so we went to using Canode.
I have been playing around with it some this week and while I like it very much, however I found it dries on the surface plate to quickly for my liking anyway. I was thinning it with windex. I would put a blob on the plate in my mixing area & spray some windex on it, mix it around with a brayer, but that did not work too well, it left thick caked blobs of blue and thin areas. The thin stuff which would transfer to the work area OK with a rubber brayer. The thick blobs had to be broken up some more before it was usable.
As it dried out in the thin layer I was using to rub my part, i would spritz with windex and let it dry some till I got the consistency I was after. It was a bit of a pain in the ass. However I did not get that gritty feel that Canode sometimes initially gives you on the plate that you have to wipe off with your hand before you can rub your part.
Richard how do you initially mix it? in a operate container? That is what I am going to try next. I will experiment some more and add my findings in the future. It has some great potential in my opinion.
Chime in if you are using Charbonnel
Cheers,
Warren
I have been playing around with it some this week and while I like it very much, however I found it dries on the surface plate to quickly for my liking anyway. I was thinning it with windex. I would put a blob on the plate in my mixing area & spray some windex on it, mix it around with a brayer, but that did not work too well, it left thick caked blobs of blue and thin areas. The thin stuff which would transfer to the work area OK with a rubber brayer. The thick blobs had to be broken up some more before it was usable.
As it dried out in the thin layer I was using to rub my part, i would spritz with windex and let it dry some till I got the consistency I was after. It was a bit of a pain in the ass. However I did not get that gritty feel that Canode sometimes initially gives you on the plate that you have to wipe off with your hand before you can rub your part.
Richard how do you initially mix it? in a operate container? That is what I am going to try next. I will experiment some more and add my findings in the future. It has some great potential in my opinion.
Chime in if you are using Charbonnel
Cheers,
Warren