Lamp Black

[Doc Ivory]

Whilst waiting for my jar of Prussian Blue transfer color to arrive, I decided to try a little lamp black.

I raided my wife's collection of Yankee candle jars and yep, under the glass lids was quite a bit of soot or lamp black.
It works like a charm!!!!

-Doc

 

[Cpt Flint]

I collect kerosene lamps and have found that smoke from one is a splendid transfer color.

 

[RAEDWALD]

The top class English gunmakers used tallow candles and now paraffin (kerosene) lamps to blacken parts for fitting So you should be fine.

 

[Doc Ivory]

I collect kerosene lamps and have found that smoke from one is a splendid transfer color.

I have an old kerosene lamp and had thought about using it.

 

[Flintandsteel]

Works like a charm Doc. Stopped using inletting black many years ago. A small lantern with a sooty burn will blacken parts quickly, works great, and much easier clean up.

 

[Cpt Flint]

I have had British Service rifles of a much later period regulated by the best and most showed the use of lamp black in fitting metal to wood.

 

[Tom A Hawk]

I know from personal experience that a Kerosun heater with a bad wick can coat every ceiling in the house with lampblack.

 

[Sidney Smith]

Too dangerous IMO. One slip with a kerosene lamp and up goes your house or workshop. Inletting black is much safer to use.

 

[holzwurm]

I have often used magic marker to blacken the edges of a metal part for inletting. But this won't work if you are installing a wood patch

 

[Flintandsteel]

Sidney,
Youre probably right, they put all those warnings on ladders, and every other piece of equipment, for people like me.

 

[longcruise]

I was working for an uncle in his trucking business and got talking to a service agent who was working on the reefer unit on my truck. He was scraping soot out of the diesel exhaust pipe. Said he used it for inletting modern rifle actions.

 

[Ponderosaman]

I collect kerosene lamps and have found that smoke from one is a splendid transfer color.

I have a heck of a kerosene lamp. Probably not a collectible specimen, but it is from my family’s 19th century homestead in South Dakota. 9 miles West of Canova.

 

[LME]

Works like a charm Doc. Stopped using inletting black many years ago. A small lantern with a sooty burn will blacken parts quickly, works great, and much easier clean up.

If it ain't broke don't fix it! Lamp black works !

 

[JCKelly]

When I built rifles I just use a candle. Simple.

 

[deerstalkert]

i mix olive oil and fly charcoal . have pounds of charcoal for making BP and the wife donates the olive oil!

 

[longcruise]

My first couple builds i used a candle with a drop of oil🛢 added at the base of the wick. That works pretty good but it trys my patience. Now I use a commercial concoction that is brushed on. I don't remember what it's called It's much easier and faster. Messy but it cleans up easily.

 

[Doc Ivory]

I scraped a bunch of my wife's candle jar tops, the undersides had quite a bit of lamp black.
Added just a "touch" of olive oil and I was in business!

 

[Howard Pippin]

I bought a quarter pound of lamp black back in 1967 to build a gunstock for an unmentionable, and I still have the darn stuff and I can guarantee you that it is black
squint

 

[Cpt Flint]

Kerosene lamps were a part of every household once. They are not as dangerous as storing black powder or traveling with 20 gallons of high octane fuel under the car at 80 miles an hour on the interstate. Too dangerous? Nonsense! Electricity is dangerous, surgery is dangerous, guns are dangerous. Etc Etc.

 

[toot]

I have a friend that uses his wife's old half used lipstick containers to use foe inletting with.