felt for wads

[Kurt]

Bob,

Last time I was out your way I stopped in a hat makers shop in Rapid City SD and asked him if he had any trimmings I could have. He came out of the back room with a whole arm full of rings he trimmed off. I asked him what he uses for felt and he said 10 and 20X rabbit felt and some wool. I separated the rings and cut several thousand wads and I really like the rabbit wads, but they both are good.

I used a mix of B-wax or Ozokerite wax, I used both, and cut it 50/50 with Vaseline and thinned it a little more with Jojoba oil and filled a coffee pot with wads and covered it with the lube mix and let it sit on the hot plate on low heat for about a hour and kept pushing them down then I poured them into a screen to let them drain and squeezed them out in a potato ricer. It didn't hurt the wads to squeeze them out using the ricer then laid them out of paper shop towels stirring them around till they cooled.
It made a very good wad.
Stay away from the synthetic felt when you look for it.

I still have several boxes of Alcan wads left over since before the power wads came around

Kurt