Reply by JayT

I almost wanted to just dip them somehow.

- Pendragon1998

Then make some japanning and dip them, it’s actually not that hard. I did a japanning blog focused on hand planes that has the ingredients I used. No reason you couldn’t make up a batch of japanning from liquid asphaltum thinned to your desired consistency.

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