In this video we try our hand at recreating a Japan black finish, or Japanning, One of my many hobbies is tool restoration, and recently I came into a number of old woodworking hand planes. Some of them are very rough and need to be restored back to a useable condition.

Japanning, or Japan black finish, was used extensively by tool manufacturers such as Stanley and even by Ford on some parts for their early models. After extensive research, I chose a recipe to try, and found a test plane so that I could experiment with different temperatures for baking this finish on.

The recipe we used was:
2 Parts Boiled Linseed Oil
5 Parts Turpentine
3 Parts Powdered Asphaltum (Gilsonite)

00:00 Intro
00:16 Mixing our Japanning recipe
02:30 Preparing our test "Victim"
03:12 The finished mix, painting it on
03:52 Test oven, and test run number 1
05:38 Test Run Number 1 Results
06:12 Prepping Test Run Number 2
07:03 Baking Test Run Number 2
08:57 Results of Test Run Number 2 and Final Thoughts

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