[ATM] Pitch Laps

[hermit at outofoptions.org (Ken Lowther)]

Quoting buck childers <bchilders@everestkc.net>:

> Folks, thanks for the replies on my pitch lap question for figuring my 12.5".
>  I will be putting new (well...old but unused) pitch on an 8" glass tool and
> going from there.
>
> Also I will be scrapping the pitch surface from the 10" stone tool.  The
> pitch looks like it's dried out and crumbly.  Can this be recycled?  Can it
> be strained of possible contaminants?  or should it just be pitched (haha).
>

Again.  The safest way is usually the best.  It can be softened with turpentine
or linseed oil.  Many strain it with good results.


Hermit, holed up in Youngstown, Ohio