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Early Access Video: Make your own paint!

🕑 Added 2020-06-27 11:01:01 +0000 UTC

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Rex Krueger

No pressure! I'm just happy you're here. Really.

Mad Hamish

Rex Krueger, trying the difficult and messy stuff so we don't have to. Keep going like this and I may up my Patreon level.

Michael Bennett

I have to agree with Michael Ross. There is no reason that you had to let it sit overnight and putrify. You can just heat the milk (~160F) in a pan, add the vinegar, and stir. Come back in 30 minutes, drain it in a colander and rinse the curds with water to get rid of the excess vinegar, breaking up the curds with your fingers. After that, you could salt it and eat it, or add pigments to make paint. Don't give up on milk paint just because of one bad experience.

Eldon

I love working with milk paint! Kudos for attempting to make your own. I don't think I have the stomach for it. The cabinet came out great! I've never tried it, but I hear you can strip the zinc coating off of the hinges using citric acid used for canning, to make them less bright and more old-timey looking.

Brian Benson

Thanks for the video, Rex. Excellent coverage and very interesting. It also convinces me that I will NEVER make my own paint unless I'm looking to experiment or kill a bunch of time! Looking forward to the plans for the cabinet to learn from! Cheers, BB

Frans van Ballegooijen

My wife has used chalkpaint quite a bit. (she didn't make it herself, but she bought it herself ;-). She says the main advantage is that you don't have to sand your subject before applying the paint. Seems a bit weird to me but she's the expert. I'm not crazy about it. In my opinion it feels (and looks) a bit like you only used primer to paint...

Michael Ross

Milk Is coagulated two ways to make cheese, with rennet where they harvest it from the stomachs of calves (now that is kind of gross). There is a vegetable rennet. The other way is with acid conversion. You can use vinegar, citric acid, lemon juice, probably others. The acid conversion gives you fresh cheeses like queso fresco, cotija, paneer and many more. Nice stuff that doesn't melt and run when it gets hot. The grossness of old refrigerator milk is converted by some random bacteria. I have used vinegar, lemon and citric and they are all about the same. Not sure what is felt to be so distasteful about it. With the acids there is very little odor at all. If you taste them they taste like vinegar, lemon or citric acid and milk, if they taste like anything at all. The wild bacterial stuff? I would agree full heartedly that potentially is disgusting. Experienced cheese makers can make good bacterial and fungal conversions, but wild is a crap shoot not worth experiencing.

xavi

Milk paint? Add vinegar? I never imagined that a wood working video would turn my stomach 😱🤢🤮

Mark R. Ferraro

I do not have a website, but can send you pics. My chair building was with Mike Dunbar at the Windsor Institute. The school is now closed but Mike has published books and youtube videos, as well as Fine Woodworking magazine.

Rex Krueger

Probably well. It's worth a try!

Rex Krueger

You do not!

Rex Krueger

I'd rather be hung-over!

Rex Krueger

That sounds like a better way to go!

Rex Krueger

I did not see this ad.

Rex Krueger

I've read about that technique and I very much want to try it. Also, do you show your Windsors online anywhere? I very much want to see them.

Rex Krueger

Yup, it really was gross.

Rex Krueger

That sounds like the way!

Rex Krueger

With a little more time, I would have tried chalkpaint, too. It sounds good.

Rex Krueger

I'm glad I saved someone the bother!

Rex Krueger

It was just on Amazon. Good price, too.

Rex Krueger

Thank you!

Rex Krueger

I'm sure it's awesome....for other people!

Rex Krueger

I am enjoying the feeling!

Brian Shaw

Rex, you reminded of something that my grandfather used to use, he would always paint our steps from the garden to the house ( all 32 of them) with white lime paint, wonder how that would go on timber.

Thrifty Woodworker

Glad to hear I don’t have to make my own paint.

Stephen Cannon

A mix of linseed oil, curdled milk, and pigment are actually the best remedy for a hangover.

Mandy

I had that experience, but with Yoohoo. Just thinking about it can get me queasy. For those who are still thinking about it, there are some recipes for milk paint that start with powdered milk (https://www.craftsmanfinishes.com/diymilkpaint/, for example), though, honestly, if I'm not also making my own pigment/pigment blend, I don't see the advantage over buying paint

Colby Allred

Jason, I don't see what you mean by "ghosted ad".

Jason Bailey

Great video as always. I was a little annoyed that there was a ghosted ad over your shirt through the whole video. Has Patreon started throwing ads on videos that we are paying to watch. That’s a little annoying.

Michael Ross

OK, persistent then. There is some similarity between the two.

Rex Krueger

I'm going to go tell my wife someone called me "patient". She needs a good laugh.

Mark R. Ferraro

I have used milk paint for years on my Windsor chairs. I top coat with Watco oil and wax. I often use two or three layers of different color milk paint. Over time the layers are worn and a kind of natural patina develops. The wear pattern will bring many fond memories of how your family used the item. Kind of like a time capsule you didn't have to bury.

Robert A Carbo

Unless your making cheese, I have no desire to do anything with curdled milk! I look forward to seeing the complete video on the cabinet.

Michael Ross

Thanks Rex, I have been planning the same paint experiment for a while on a hall table I have following Richard Maguire's series. His wife is into design and has used milk paint. THey milk painted the series end product. It looks very nice. You haven't dissuaded me. I can pretty much tolerate any smell so that isn't an issue. But, its really good to see a patient person like yourself chime in on the laborious, tedious nature of it. I won't be surprised or impatient myself when I do it. Great video series! You keep rewarding my patronage in spades. Mike

Yohann_M

There's a building supply recycling company near me, and they always have cans of paint for sale. I think I'll use the paint from there instead of trying to make it myself. That takes care of the biggest issue with buying paint - the cost. It's usually $2-5 for a can.

Frans van Ballegooijen

Watch what your saying. Often when people say that they'll NEVER EVER gonna do something, chances are that they probably will... But I'll take your word for it for now. Time will tell... And you don't have to use milk, there's also something called Chalkpaint... BTW: Great job...

Jeff Stauffer

I will take your word for it and NEVER try to make my own paint. Thanks for doing it for us! Because I may have tried to some time.

Kirk von der Heydt

Just the thought of the smell of the curdled milk make me want to hurl. I do like the mixed powered paint though. Where did you find the stuff? (Off to google I go)

Thomas Tittlemier

Look forward to the build video. The piece looks great!

Daniel Bohrer

Milk paint was so not on my radar! I also heard that you can use egg yolks as a binder for the pigment, which is another thing I definitely cannot imagine ^^