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Offline stringstretcher

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Pure Gold from the Classic
« on: May 09, 2013, 07:50:56 pm »
I had an old crock pot that was laying around and decided to use it to melt down and refine the bees wax that Pearl Drums gave me at the classic.  I put some in the pot, melted it low, strained out the big stuff, then put a piece of tee shirt over my strainer and stained out 12, 2oz cups of pure bees wax.  Now ain't these a thing of beauty?



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Offline TRACY

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Re: Pure Gold from the Classic
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2013, 08:49:15 pm »
Very cool Charlie! I bet it smelled good ;)

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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Pure Gold from the Classic
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2013, 09:47:46 pm »
We were joking about Charlie being the best smelling guy at the Classic  ;D 
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Offline seabass

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Re: Pure Gold from the Classic
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2013, 09:57:22 pm »
good deal Charles.it turned out fine.
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Pure Gold from the Classic
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2013, 11:33:44 pm »
Only thing that smells as good as honey...beeswax!  Such useful stuff, Charlie.

Measure out half an ounce of beeswax and add an ounce of high quality olive oil.  Makes a good lip balm in the winter.  Rub it on rough hands or heels to keep 'em soft.  Also makes a good patch lube for muzzleloading!
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Offline JEB

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Re: Pure Gold from the Classic
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2013, 12:03:10 am »
I use 2/3rd wax and 1/3 toilet bowl ring, (new one, if you use an old one you have to strain the wax  again, lol)
This makes the wax a little softer to use when making bow strings. 

 
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Offline Wolf Watcher

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Re: Pure Gold from the Classic
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2013, 12:34:00 am »
OK!  so now I have it figured out who this Pearl Drums guy is!  Have some wax and Hawk got a bunch!  Thanks much!  Joe
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Pure Gold from the Classic
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2013, 01:36:47 am »
he was the goofy looking guy from up north.  ;D
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Re: Pure Gold from the Classic
« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2013, 01:56:12 am »
Pat thats what they said about me when I relocated from Ohio to NC. So that tells me PD must be one helluva of a swell guy.  ;D
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Re: Pure Gold from the Classic
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2013, 10:44:40 am »
Did a second melting this morning, and got 16 more 2 oz cups of the good stuff.  Still have at least two more meltings to go.
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Pure Gold from the Classic
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2013, 02:27:15 pm »
Joe, Pearl Drums was the guy with the beard and skinny arms running around telling everybody that he got a Pappy bow  ;)
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Re: Pure Gold from the Classic
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2013, 03:59:28 pm »
Boy oh boy look at the bunch of tough guys jibbering now that Im 500 miles north again!  There will be another Classic fella's and I will be there, gunships and all. Brennan and Anders are #1 and #2 on my "list".

Glad you got a positive ID on me Joe! We spoke several times in passing.

I was hoping Mike (Hawk) would know what that wax was for. I never got a chance to introduce myself or explain what I left him. Clint told me what it was for and I flopped a box down on his table.
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Re: Pure Gold from the Classic
« Reply #12 on: May 10, 2013, 04:21:36 pm »
Got some more filtered today, but found some still trash in some of the small containers.  I am sure some of yours do to Pearl, as I had nothing but the metal strainer with me when I did yours.  So here is my yield so far, and still have two meltings to do.


I noticed so trash in some of the containers, so what I did is just run the raw melted wax through the metal strainer to get the big stuff and other junk out.  See the big squares?
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Re: Pure Gold from the Classic
« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2013, 04:24:05 pm »
When I removed the squares and looked at the bottoms....trash.  This will not be acceptable for me and bow wax.  So I am melting it all, running it through the metal strainer, then it will all get melted again, and run through a cloth and metal staining to get every piece of trash out.  See the trash on the bottoms.


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Re: Pure Gold from the Classic
« Reply #14 on: May 10, 2013, 04:50:57 pm »
I use it just like that Charlie. Works fine for me. I bet cheese clothe would work good, but would strain slowly.
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