Inletting transfer color

[mossyhorn]

What so some of you use for inletting transfer colors to mark for inletting into stocks etc.

[Dan Fruth]

For light colored wood I use a wide tipped black magic marker, and on dark woods I use powdered paint (Art store) and oil mixed together. Both work very well. For metal to metal I use prusian blue, and staple of the machinest.

[Scota4570]

Artists oil paint, Prussian blue.  Also soot from a MAP gas torch run with the air vents blocked.  For metal to metal fitting I use cold blue or Sharpie marker. 

[PPatch]

I use an oil lamp without the globe. Being careful to light it when I intend to darken parts, use it, then blow it out.





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[P.W.Berkuta]

That's what I use also. Works great and I can adjust the flame to make a lot or little soot. I use to use Prussian Blue many moons ago - too messy for me.

[JBJ]

Cheap lipstick!

[Nate McKenzie]

JBJ- much  too messy and hard to clean up.  I'm with PPatch. But then I like anything that burns or goes bang.

[Joe S.]

I "borrowed" a tube of lipstick from my girl but as with all this transfer stuff you use to much and you gotta mess on your hands.

[Jerry V Lape]

Candle soot until I find a suitable oil lamp base.  Before I used the dry erase markers but they are too time consuming to get good coverage.  Soot just goes on and off easy. 

[T*O*F]

Make a thick paste from powdered chalk line chalk and either Murphy's Oil Soap or water soluble oil.  Spead it on your part with an acid brush.  Thereafter, you need only move it around with the brush until it's depleted.  Then just re-dip the brush.  No mess--easy water clean-up.  A 35mm film can full will last years.

[stuart cee dub]

 Good thread .
I have used of late a smoky candle and the cheapest vegetable oil aerosol (like Pam)
I'll alternate soot and spray as needed to get the right mix on the part itself.
 

[54ball]

 I use a candle.

[Boompa]

Most of the time I use a black felt marker.  I cleans up nicely with denatured alcohol and is not messy. I've also used wax candles and/or alcohol lamp. I quit using Jarros black a long time ago, too messy.

[rsells]

I am with PPach on using soot from a lamp with out the globe.   Tried a few of the other options when I started and the soot is not as messy. 
                                                                             Roger Sells

[Jim Kibler]

Lots of transfer color methods.  One good one is to collect a bunch of soot on a piece of steel and then mix it with just a tad of oil.  Work it around with a cheap brush.  A pretty dry mix is best.  If you use a good sized brush, it can be applied pretty quickly.  Much easier than using a candle or oil lamp in my experience.  You can also use bone black in place of the soot.  The stuff I have was sold under the name "drop black".

Jim

[Frank]

I use a red lumber crayon, mainly on buttplates. Black dry markers on everything else.  Easy transfer and no mess.

[Dennis Glazener]

I used to use permanent black marker but I didn't always get a good transfer and had to use alcohol to clean up and still hard to get all of it off if in crevices.

Candle soot works well but hate having a candle or oil lamp on my messy bench, am sure if I didn't put the candle out between uses I would burn the place down!

In-letting black was a mess didn't like it at all. Jim Chambers posted that he used
Prussian blue so I tried Permatex non-drying Prussian blue. Best transfer of anything I have used cleans up with a dry rag. Cheap at about $4 a tube at NAPA store.
Dennis

[EC121]

I put a candle in a piece of 2x4 for a base  and it won't tip over.  If I forget to put it out, it will burn itself out melted wax in the hole.  4 candles for a dollar at Walmart.  Got tired of the matches piling up and bought a grill lighter.

[Dennis Glazener]

I put a candle in a piece of 2x4 for a base  and it won't tip over.  If I forget to put it out, it will burn itself out melted wax in the hole.  4 candles for a dollar at Walmart.  Got tired of the matches piling up and bought a grill lighter.

Not bad in the winter when my shop was cool but didn't help when it got hot and humid in the summer! I had/have a pile of half used candles a friend gave me but I now prefer the Prussian Blue

[Hungry Horse]

 I use inletting black. What a novel idea, using something that is made for the purpose. I figure I'd much rather have somebody years from now say, he sure made a nice rifle, but you know he used store bought inletting black, instead of the other way around. As for Prussian blue, I use it on metal, but inherited a project that had used it on wood, and thought I would never get rid of it.

  Hungry Horse

[WKevinD]

Permatex or Jarros, NO OPEN FLAMES (except for a torch) in my shop !

[mossyhorn]

Ordered some Prussian blue yesterday from O'Riley Auto Parts
and will give this a try before the WKU Mountain Rifle Build class.
Jim is kind enough to offer to provide some color that I could use
and I'll probably carry some candles or a lamp.

[thimble rig]

I use jarrows Gets all over me and everything else .

[Joe S.]

question,reading some of you folks use a little oil and mix what ever into it to make your transfer material.My question,do you worry about it leaching into the wood taking color with it and possibly staining the wood around the inletting?I know the lipstick does stain a little but didn't seem to run that deep into the wood,curious about oil based materials.

[Jim Kibler]

question,reading some of you folks use a little oil and mix what ever into it to make your transfer material.My question,do you worry about it leaching into the wood taking color with it and possibly staining the wood around the inletting?I know the lipstick does stain a little but didn't seem to run that deep into the wood,curious about oil based materials.

Use a pretty dry mix.  Very little oil.