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Offline Blackpowder Barbie

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Source for Lye
« on: August 18, 2009, 10:15:23 PM »
It seems lye is becoming more and more difficult to come by but I've found a new place to get it.  So for anyone needing some for staining cherry wood here you go:

http://www.brushymountainbeefarm.com/Lye/products/84/

With my bee keeping comes new sources for gun making supplies - bees wax, lye, honey to put on those cuts and scrapes.   ;D
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Re: Source for Lye
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2009, 10:56:36 PM »
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Re: Source for Lye
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2009, 01:58:31 AM »
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Re: Source for Lye
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2009, 04:02:23 PM »
Hey I thought we made everything we need on this site you know go build the box fill with ash pour water keep it up till you get your lye but I like Barbies :D Idea better
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Re: Source for Lye
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2009, 04:54:27 PM »
Buy your kits and barrels now, because once Barbie's Bees start producing, she's going to retire.

I just made that up. I saw her at the CLA, and she's put more money into bees than she will ever get out of the honey.

I'll buy wax from you, Barbie. I use it for my "Tom's Balm" and bullet lube, and stock finish, and candles, and.... 
I like the cappings from the frames, wax and honey mixed, know what I mean? Spread that on toast, and you have a real treat. Your teeth and insides are completely wax coated for the rest of the day. Too much info.  ;D

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Re: Source for Lye
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2009, 07:50:18 PM »
Quote from: Blackpowder Barbie on August 18, 2009, 10:15:23 PM
It seems lye is becoming more and more difficult to come by but I've found a new place to get it.  So for anyone needing some for staining cherry wood here you go:

http://www.brushymountainbeefarm.com/Lye/products/84/

With my bee keeping comes new sources for gun making supplies - bees wax, lye, honey to put on those cuts and scrapes.   ;D
Barbie

Barbie,

If you want to give Cherry wood an aged look you might consider ammonia fumes.  Gives a nice red-ish brown color.  I used to use it to "age" cherry powder horn tops.  For stocks you would have to somehow enclose the stock for the fumes to work.

Ammonia fumes were used in furniture factories in the late 1800's and early 1900's to color wood.  This is how they got the "Golden Oak" color so highly prized in period furniture.

Bill K.
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