Pine Resin

[Boomhower]

Hi All,
A few years ago, more like several years ago, in WB magazine, there was an article on a boat a person had restored and finished it in some type of pine resin product that gave it a blackish finish.
I would like to find out what this stuff was and where I can get it.
I have been searching around on the internet and have come across the product for sealing seams in decks, but I don't think that is the same stuff.
Can anyone steer me in the right direction?

[Boomhower]

Hi All,
A few years ago, more like several years ago, in WB magazine, there was an article on a boat a person had restored and finished it in some type of pine resin product that gave it a blackish finish.
I would like to find out what this stuff was and where I can get it.
I have been searching around on the internet and have come across the product for sealing seams in decks, but I don't think that is the same stuff.
Can anyone steer me in the right direction?

[Boomhower]

Hi All,
A few years ago, more like several years ago, in WB magazine, there was an article on a boat a person had restored and finished it in some type of pine resin product that gave it a blackish finish.
I would like to find out what this stuff was and where I can get it.
I have been searching around on the internet and have come across the product for sealing seams in decks, but I don't think that is the same stuff.
Can anyone steer me in the right direction?

[Cecil Nickerson]

Use the forum search function and look for pine tar, you'll find a lot of information about it and its uses in making an oil finish. I got my tar from American Rope and Tar. They have a website and very good to deal with. Hope this helps…

Regards, Cecil

[Cecil Nickerson]

Use the forum search function and look for pine tar, you'll find a lot of information about it and its uses in making an oil finish. I got my tar from American Rope and Tar. They have a website and very good to deal with. Hope this helps…

Regards, Cecil

[Cecil Nickerson]

Use the forum search function and look for pine tar, you'll find a lot of information about it and its uses in making an oil finish. I got my tar from American Rope and Tar. They have a website and very good to deal with. Hope this helps…

Regards, Cecil

[Wayne Jeffers]

Boomer,

I think what you're after is commonly called "boat soup." I don't think you can buy it ready-made. Make your own from pine tar, raw linseed oil, turps, and Japan drier, IIRC. The search feature should turn up a recipe for the right proportions.

Wayne

[Wayne Jeffers]

Boomer,

I think what you're after is commonly called "boat soup." I don't think you can buy it ready-made. Make your own from pine tar, raw linseed oil, turps, and Japan drier, IIRC. The search feature should turn up a recipe for the right proportions.

Wayne

[Wayne Jeffers]

Boomer,

I think what you're after is commonly called "boat soup." I don't think you can buy it ready-made. Make your own from pine tar, raw linseed oil, turps, and Japan drier, IIRC. The search feature should turn up a recipe for the right proportions.

Wayne

[Seth Wood]

I ordered pine tar from Jamestown distributors. Then I found the same stuff [Bickmore, I think] for half the price at a local farm store. Though I suspect it may be different, if only slightly, from the American Rope and Tar formula. Still, the feed store/Jamestown stuff works great for "boat soup."

[ 12-17-2002, 08:10 AM: Message edited by: Seth Wood ]

[Seth Wood]

I ordered pine tar from Jamestown distributors. Then I found the same stuff [Bickmore, I think] for half the price at a local farm store. Though I suspect it may be different, if only slightly, from the American Rope and Tar formula. Still, the feed store/Jamestown stuff works great for "boat soup."

[ 12-17-2002, 08:10 AM: Message edited by: Seth Wood ]

[Seth Wood]

I ordered pine tar from Jamestown distributors. Then I found the same stuff [Bickmore, I think] for half the price at a local farm store. Though I suspect it may be different, if only slightly, from the American Rope and Tar formula. Still, the feed store/Jamestown stuff works great for "boat soup."

[ 12-17-2002, 08:10 AM: Message edited by: Seth Wood ]

[Tom Jackson]

The Wooden Boat Shop in Seattle is no longer in business, but American Rope & Tar is a good source <tarsmell.com> and pine tar is also available through the sources stated above and, I believe, through the Wooden Boat Foundation in Port Townsend <www.woodenboat.org>.

The pine tar distilled from the resin of pine trees is the type you want. Pine tar is also used widely by large animal vetrinarians, but the type marketed to them usually has a definite asphaltic smell to it. This asphaltic type is also sometimes found in marine supply stores, but it isn't to be preferred.

[Tom Jackson]

The Wooden Boat Shop in Seattle is no longer in business, but American Rope & Tar is a good source <tarsmell.com> and pine tar is also available through the sources stated above and, I believe, through the Wooden Boat Foundation in Port Townsend <www.woodenboat.org>.

The pine tar distilled from the resin of pine trees is the type you want. Pine tar is also used widely by large animal vetrinarians, but the type marketed to them usually has a definite asphaltic smell to it. This asphaltic type is also sometimes found in marine supply stores, but it isn't to be preferred.

[Tom Jackson]

The Wooden Boat Shop in Seattle is no longer in business, but American Rope & Tar is a good source <tarsmell.com> and pine tar is also available through the sources stated above and, I believe, through the Wooden Boat Foundation in Port Townsend <www.woodenboat.org>.

The pine tar distilled from the resin of pine trees is the type you want. Pine tar is also used widely by large animal vetrinarians, but the type marketed to them usually has a definite asphaltic smell to it. This asphaltic type is also sometimes found in marine supply stores, but it isn't to be preferred.