Thread: A Lee Speed stock

Have wet sanded to 1000grt and will now sit like this now till I am ready to apply the red oil. I had got a different lot of alkanet root this time (bark and root instead of powder) and it hadn't coloured as deep as I wanted so ground substantially more of the bark and root and added that to the jar with a little more oil. I keep heating the oil in a hot water bath and giving the jar a good shake and it is really starting to take a better colour but it may well take another day or two for the infusion to get it to the depth of red I want it to be. In the summer I would sit it in the sun and shake it every time I passed it but the colder weather needs other means to help the infusion take place.