Making an oil cloth and have a question

[tsgalloway]

Re: Making an oil cloth and have a question

Authentic Campaigner?

Paul B.

I agree with Paul...

[itz3r1k]

Re: Making an oil cloth and have a question

My vision may be off but as i am only 18 i do not think it is but does the mixture look a little brown to anyone else?

Your most humble and obedient servant,
Erik W Creekmore,

[Vuhginyuh]

Re: Making an oil cloth and have a question

...Zinsser Shieldz ready-to-use acryclic clear...

Authentic ...?

Paul B.

No, it isn't.

[Silas]

Re: Making an oil cloth and have a question

Huh? That's not Jack's method. He lists four recipes in his article. All of which can be found here : http://44tennessee.tripod.com/articles//oilcloth.pdf The four are : a modern recipe, a period recipe, the Confederate Ordnance Manual recipe which he tells people to use at their own risk sue to the use of litharge ; and a turpentine-based recipe which is issues sufficient hazard warnings in red type that he does not recommend or endorse.

He declares in the article that the modern recipe is inauthentic and questions why someone would "want to 'fake it' with a modern approximation when a good period recipe is available."

For the period recipe, he writes :

I strongly recommend this recipe because it is about as authentic as you can get without putting life and limb in danger.

Materials:

Boiled linseed oil
Mineral spirits
paint thinner (or turpentine)
Lampblack (comes in tubes or dry powder)
Japan dryer
Corn starch

I don't see where Jack recommended or even listed the use of clear acrylic. He did list black latex paint in his modern recipe, but that was in a method where he questioned the use thereof. Maybe he could have described it as the mainstream method ...