I begin the same as GeNoCyDe, but after heating and skiiming it off, I put it in a plastic container that I don't mind throwing away afterwards and put it in the freezer. Use utensils that are old and expendable. The pine resin sticks to everything. Normally I use a pot of boiling water and put a can or heavy tinfoil in the boiling water. The pine sap is inside the tinfoil or can. This can is disposable. Even the spoon or whatever I use to skim off the purified resin is old or disposable. Pine sap sticks to everything.
When I need to use some, I bring it out of the freezer and chip off some of it while it is still frozen and not too sticky. It comes off in flakes or chips fairly easily. Mostly I add it to incense mixtures.
QUOTE(GeNoCyDe @ Oct 5 2006, 09:13 PM)
Pine resin is procured by taking a 1"X3" piece of bark from a North American pine deep enough to see wood under it,
Collecting the goo which oozes out over a week long period in a metal plate,slowly heating it and dipping off the impurites,
Then doing one of three things to it.
[1]Allowing it to solidify into a block.
[2]Mixing sulphur to make "gum" to be used as a "marker"or glue.
[3]Thinning it with mineral spirits or turpentine[PREFERRABLY] to
create a Jel to fascilitate easy use.
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