Where can you buy lampblack?

These guys have it:

http://www.naturalpigments.com...p?PRODUCT_ID=480-50S

Those guys want more for shipping than the lampblack cost

are lampblack and carbon black the same? carbon black can be bought MUCH cheaper from art supply stores.

If you're gonna use it for making inletting black, by the time you get it mixed with oil (or whatever) you probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two.

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Originally posted by craigster:
If you're gonna use it for making inletting black, by the time you get it mixed with oil (or whatever) you probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two.

Brownell's sells it in small bottles.

Thanks Jim.

Look at the label on the Brownell's inletting black...In the past, analine dye was used...not good for your health...

That brownells inletting black is too thick. I want to make my own like you do Duane.

It thins with vaseline.

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Originally posted by Big Earl:
It thins with vaseline.

I'll try it.

Carbon black and lamp black are essentially the same.

How about black concrete pigment? Some brands are made of carbon black, some brands are iron oxide.

Disclaimer: I've only used this for coloring concrete, but it seems like it would work like lampblack.

You can use a real lamp, too, or an acetylene torch.

Neither particularly handy.

Didn't Brownells sell a miner's lamp and carbide to black sights at one time?

I use a jewelers alcohol lamp filled with Tikki Torch fuel. Great smoke, cheap and easys to use plus it keeps the bugs out in the summer.

..with respect....cannot powdered graphite be used??

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Originally posted by Duane Wiebe:
Look at the label on the Brownell's inletting black...In the past, analine dye was used...not good for your health...

Aniline dyes are in candy, medication, artificially colored drinks, and an uncountable variety of foods .....nevermind cosmetics and anything you can imagine consumed by or applied to our bodies. Do you think there are any reasons for the skyrocketing (but unheralded) incidence of cancers?! There is truly....no place to hide.