#oilskin

[drecksjunge-blog]

[sophiahahaahahahahah]

~ solitude studios ~

[claybourn214]

The King’s Oilskin Riding Coat is more than just outerwear—it's a statement. Available in rich black and brown shades, this coat features a unique oilskin finish that develops character over time. With gold clip-stud fasteners and a high collar, it offers both sophistication and practicality. The triangular fan-tail back allows freedom of movement, making it ideal for horseback riding, biking, or daily wear. Its sleek, tailored fit ensures style, while its adjustable front and collar add versatility.

[helmort]

🎃 𝗠𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 🎃

Name's Noah Miller, been a Los Angeles sheriff as far back as I can remember. Spent half my life chasing down these race they call the "black people." And, let me tell you, they're a breed apart. Not a shred of humanity in 'em; they're like beasts in the night. The cases I've seen, some closed, most left hanging, all because of these sinister creeps. Damn cockroaches…Damn cockroaches!

The black people, they don't just thieve your stuff, they invade your home, snatch your kids, and all too often, they leave you and your kin in a pool of blood. Why, you ask? We've pondered that question time and again, and it all boils down to one thing – they're not like us. Now, at 65 years old, the sight of their stinky black skin turns my stomach. They're nothing but vile bastards. We've been hunting 'em for years, trying to purge our streets of their filth. But it's a never-ending battle. These folks know how to survive in the darkest corners of our city, far from the prying eyes of decent society, conducting their dark business…Damn cockroaches!

The nightmare began in 2057 when their ship touched down. We thought we were meeting aliens, beings superior to us. We were equal parts terrified and excited. But when we cracked open that vessel, what we found were not smart aliens, but these black people, some sort of space parasites that killed the other species piloting the ship. They're like humans at a glance, but with three eyes, gills like some twisted fish, and that repulsive black skin, like oil seeping from the Earth, stinking like rot. Within a year, they'd spread like a virus, infesting every inch of our planet. Now, we're fighting a losing battle to wipe 'em out. Strangely, their presence put an end to human crimes, wars, discriminations, and all the usual chaos, 'cause we all share one thing – an unrelenting hatred for the black people…Damn cockroaches!

💀☠️💀☠️💀

[drecksjunge-blog]

yeah, wanna hump

Crawl on top of me buddy and start humping me💪💦💦

[cyclochila]

carpenter in an oilskin because todays the day!'!

[hervey-gervey-chip]

DIY AGE-OF-SAIL INSPIRED FOULIES

part III: the process

it’s been a couple weeks since i finished making the alterations i wanted to make to the bibs before waxing, but we finally had an open shop day at school where i'm not bothering my buddies over at the Lady Washinton (though let’s be honest, the only reason i’m not there now is because they’re in anacortes and i dont wanna do the whole drive-ferry-drive thing). HOWEVER, that means i got to spend 4 hours painting my overalls with hot toxic soup. as far as the soup recipe goes, I did actually end up changing it again. in my first post i said i’d do varnish, and the second post i said black paint. i was going to measure everything out nice and had oz quantities i was going to adhere to, but i forgot my measuring cup… lets be real though, it’s probably more historically accurate to just throw shit in a pot and go. I’M MEASURING BY VIBES FOR SCIENCE!! the final recipe went something like this:

1lb microcrystalline wax

~1 cup mineral spirits

~3/4 cup tung oil

~1/2 cup rust-oleum oil based enamel paint (black)

~2 tbsp pine tar

I probably could have done more pine tar but the class bucket was basically empty and i didn’t want to walk down the hill to get more. I also know that pine tar takes fucking forever to cure, and even a small amount smells incredibly strong (though i certainly don’t mind, i actually prefer to be covered in the stuff most times- it’s more a courtesy to the non-tall shippers who aren’t used to the incredibly concentrated stink of 10 campfires burning directly into your nostrils). the reason i added the pine tar is because of it’s anti-bacterial and anti-microbial properties, since once the bibs are cured i really won’t be able to wash them. also, from my (limited and haphazard) research, you don’t need a lot to reap those benefits.

i put the wax in a double boiler, and once melted, added the oil, thinner, and paint/pine tar all at once. once it was all sufficiently combined, i started painting it on, let it cool a little bit, and then went back in with a heat gun and brush to help the solution impregnate the fibers of the cloth. oh also. make sure you are in a well ventilated space AND WEAR A RESPIRATOR (see the i-learned section below). i did 2 coats all over in this manner, and then a third over the knees, butt, and ankles for good measure.

oils and tar over any kind of fibrous material can take weeks to fully cure (as i have learned well from rigging), so i am expecting to leave my garment and it’s accoutrements hanging in the shop for about 3 weeks before they reach any kind of wearable or testable condition. everything seemed to soak in pretty well, but i left the shop before everything fully cooled so i’ll do another update at the beginning of next week- i’m anticipating that i over-waxed and there will be some residue i will have to deal with (though in what way is to be decided).

cleanup was pretty easy, considering my proclivity for giant messes with any project i engage in- lots of mineral spirits and several rags seemed to do the trick.

some things i learned/would do differently:

oh my god this recipe makes so much. like. so much. i had like 2 cups leftover and i did 2 coats on my overalls, pockets, AND a 1’x3’ piece of spare canvas. if you were just waxing a pair of pants, halving the recipe would still probably be more than enough

putting the cold liquids into the hot wax makes it congeal a little bit, but you can’t tell when the black paint makes the entire contents of the pot turn, well, BLACK. id put the transparent stuff in first, let it all melt together, and then add the black paint so that there wouldn’t suddenly be so many solid particles all at once

MIX FREQUENTLY. photo 3 shows the difference. i had mixed it really well at the beginning, but once it was all (presumably) a single solution, i stopped worrying about mixing it. the thing about paint/varnish/buildable coatings is that the reason they are buildable or have any sort of pigment is because of the suspended solids within it. this means that over time, the solids will coagulate at the bottom of the container, which is why you have to shake nail polish or stir paint before using it. this also means that i should have been mixing every couple minutes as i was painting it onto the bibs, so i ended up with a very pigmented mixture at the end, and a relatively translucent mix at the beginning. up until a certain point, i was getting a pigment that was not opaque but i was happy with, so i didn’t think too much of it until i was putting on coats that looked more brown than grey or black. anyways, mix your shit.

so… cotton burns. i was painting one leg at a time and then heat gunning it before moving on to the next leg. the wax/oil solution seems to make the fabric more resistant to burning, so the painted bits can take more heat than the untreated cotton next to it. if you, say, for example, (i definitely DID NOT DO THIS) get distracted by a particularly riveting tiktok your friend sent you of a snail vibing on a car windshield while your heat gun is blasting on high 2 inches from your pants, the raw canvas may or may not start smoking. i switched up to painting the Entire back or Entire front before heat gunning, and that seemed to solve the problem (also no more snail tiktoks)

respirators are kind of important. i was in a giant shop with vaulted ceilings next to a wide open garage door and i still had a bit of a headache after 4 hours of standing unprotected next to a pot of hot poison.

photo descriptions:

setup

setup part 2: electric boogaloo

pant ass- upper section 1 coat unmixed, lower section 1 coat mixed

spare canvas in the midst of coat 2

back of spare canvas after coat 1

back of spare canvas after coat 2

waterproof test!

finished garments and spare canvas, ready to cure

cleanup

[drecksjunge-blog]

[mxldito]

I have AUs that have no names, only placeholders. But Me when I'm a fish, Corporate Spineless, and Scoobert Goes Machete-Mode cannot stick...or can they?

[sophiahahaahahahahah]

‘Essence’ Oilskin Bag

solitude-studios.com

[mollypaup]

The problem with being autistic and trying to buy a new winter coat is that everything is that fucking awful silky texture now. You find a coat that is not this on the outside and then for some incomprehensible reason it is this texture ON THE INSIDE OF THE SLEEVES???

[seacountrycity]

INFRASTRUCTURE, GY

[interdunal]

[anguilliforme]

idk what kind of australian sickness goes on in my head but every time winter comes around and we get multiple rainy days in a row im like "wow I need to get an akubra"

[whillasandgunn01]

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[hervey-gervey-chip]

DIY AGE-OF-SAIL INSPIRED FOULIES

part IV: the test

y’all i fucking did it!i’m making an update! first off, let’s go through the weather of the day. it was cloudy with a light but consistent drizzle, slightly chilly, and it had rained enough by the time i was climbing around that the rig was thoroughly wet. (said rig is pictured below with the day’s conditions)

initial reaction when putting them on:

relatively stiff! very similar level of stiffness to my other pair of bibs that I have from 2020; they are just the most basic west marine ones you can buy.

it was sprinkling a bit outside already, and water was beading nicely on the cloth

the ass reinforcement i did began slightly lower than i would have liked, but i guess that’s what you get when you don’t measure anything on your actual physical form before you start sewing lol

i wore them over top of my denim work pants and i didn’t feel congested in there at all

sail prep:

the harness cinched over them just fine and they were super easy to climb in!

we reefed tops’ls and i went out to the yardarm to do the earring lashing, and therefore had full body contact with a wet yard and sail for the duration of the lashing (diagram below), and then stood on the footropes regular-style for a bit to finish up reef nettles. i got back to deck and was not a bit damper than i was before i went aloft. *though everything i was wearing was just ~ambiently damp~ just because that’s how humidity works. if you’ve ever put on an item of clothing that’s been living in under-bunk storage for a month, that’s what the vibe was.

water was no longer beading, but rather a thin film of wet on the top layer of fibers.

sail time!

plenty of time on a knee or sitting on wet hatches i think is what did it. i was still fairly dry; however, by the end of the day i felt a little wetness seeping through at the knees, and more on the butt. that said, the reinforcement was /just/ high enough to cover the part that made contact when sitting.

overall, they fared about as well as those westmarine bibs do currently: definitely works, but not the ideal for a downpour or long watches in the rain.

what i learned:

i’m definitely doing this again and maybe my shipmates and i will have a oilskin-making party, though next time i will be changing the recipe

when i got back to the shop that monday, i found my sample piece of fabric that i put raw tung oil on to see how it cured by itself. it was surprisingly malleable and didn’t crack when i bent it around a bit. i had been pondering using just a quarter of the wax in the next mix just to keep it a bit more flexible so the paint and oil won’t crack as the bibs are exposed to the elements. now that i know what i do, i may even reduce the wax to a few heaping tablespoons just so that whatever wax i use to maintain them will stick better to the cloth. i think the issue here that caused the present pair to wet out was penetration (i’m so sorry i couldn’t think of a better word).

i also waxed the reinforcements after they were attached, and next time i’ll definitely oil the fabric separate from the bibs themselves for an extra layer of protection.

conclusion:

i’m honestly not disappointed and am, in fact, slightly impressed that my amateur soup-soaked overalls are comparable to the state of a (used) pair of mass-manufactured foul weather bibs.