I've got news for you. Those are vinyl inlays, not paper. I've hand murdered those before and they come out 100% perfect with NO evidence of the former inlay left over.
yes, unless your chips are really just totally dead and they are going to need multiple rounds of conditioning to bring back to life
Teach me!!!!
Label and oil
Not true.i always oil before labelling and in some cases have applied the label only a few hours after oiling.
My experience is Pippas. I've had one set dump the labels when oiled before, but never had a label come off if I oiled after, even if I oiled immediately.
Wierd. I am definitely not light on the oil either.
Funny you mentioned those. I have never done those, but I have a barrel on the way to murder. I'll take some pics and let you know.
I thought these were pumpkin and not blaze, but I might be wrong.
I’m just guessing but I think these maybe paper inlays
I sure hope not, but I'll let you know
Another I'll help you post:
I'll give another hint to everyone trying this themselves and I would say this one is the biggest of all: Go slow at first and make sure you like what you are doing before proceeding with a mass murder.
Here is my reasoning:
There are several things that can go wrong with the whole murder thing. I am sure that there are others, but these are the ones that jump to the top of my mind as I am thinking about this. All of the following can be avoided by following my advice of going slow and if you don't like the results just slow down and change your procedure/method of murder or just stop all together and let someone else do it that can do it without damaging the chips (other than the murder part)
a) you might not even like the chips you have chosen to murder & once murdered you can't un-murder.
This one has been discussed quite a bit before, but it a big one and deserves mentioning again. You can murder just a few chips and label them 1st so you are confident that you like the final result before mass murder.
b) Damaging the chips by cutting too deep: (1st pic below)
This was a chip that I did not murder, but is a good example of this. The angle of attack with your knife to the face of the chip is too steep and you wind up cutting too deep. A small nick isn't a big deal and will be covered up by the labels, but a deep cut/gauge will be seen and can be felt through the new label. Hold the knife as parallel to the face of the chip that you can. I almost never cut into the clay at all. When I do it is very shallow.
c) Damaging the chips by NANPR causing discoloration: (2nd pic below)
Different chips react a lot differently to different solvents. In the pic below you can see that the clay material on chip on the left in the area that used to be covered up by the inlay is not discolored, but the one on the right is. These two chips were done with the same NANPR, but as you can see one color gets discolored and the other does not. I am not going to intentionally ruin a chip so I can show you all what that damage looks like on the face of the chip, but I think everyone can imagine that if the discoloration in the middle of the chip on the right was on the face of the chip you would wind up with a really bad looking finished product. Some colors are extremely sensitive to discoloration and others are not very sensitive at all, others are in between somewhere. You are not going to know until you try and I can assure you that if the chips you are murdering are sensitive to discoloration you are going damage at least a few, probably a lot, before you figure out how to murder them without damaging them. Once again, I almost never damage the face of the chip by discoloring it from the solvent because I have figured out how to keep the solvent off the face of the chip.
Moral of the story:
Go slow and make sure you are getting satisfactory results before proceeding with mass murder
Confirmed. Any additional tips? The vinyl is just stubborn. I try to peel up a corner with the top layer still attached, then add a drop of nail polish remover to assist and it’s still pretty tedious.
Slow but steady progress. Halfway done with my barrel.
This pic is so much easier to look at now that I've finished my 3rd rack of $500's. Thanks again for the 3 way trade.
I’ve misplaced a barrel of those lmao. I received it in the mail Jan 4 and I can’t find it. I’m hoping it’s with @Nanook but I don’t see it in our PMs.
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