I need help with my new rosin

February 28, 2014 at 09:51 AM · You mean a dent in the centre? That should make no difference at all except to give you a slightly smaller contact area. Just use it and the dent will gradually disappear.

Perhaps the real 'problem' is that the surface is still shiny and you are not getting traction? Again, a few strokes with a bit more pressure should get it started...

February 28, 2014 at 12:56 PM · Skylar, you can melt it and remold it. For the melting you can use a 1/4-cup steel measuring cup, over the stove (ceramic cooktop works best, and I think this would be difficult with a gas stove), and for the mold you need an *all-silicone* baking pan for mini-cupcakes (usually available at a good supermarket, preferably one for round cupcakes without fluted sides and with flat bottoms). Over the LOWEST heat setting on a ceramic cooktop the rosin will melt in 5-10 minutes, then you can pour it into the mold, refrigerate overnight, peel the flexible silicone mold away from the rosin, and stick it back onto the cloth with a piece of mounting tape. I have done this a few times, it works just fine. I usually sand the top surface a little to roughen it to get it started.

Note that the only such mold I could find at my local supermarket was for heart-shaped cupcakes (for kids to take to school on Valentine's Day or such) and as a result I have a couple of cakes of rosin that are heart-shaped. I call them "Rosins of Love" in analogy to "Violins of Hope" and I claim "Rosins of Love" as a trade mark.)

February 28, 2014 at 02:11 PM · Sand the top of the rosin to take the gloss off. Then just use it. Rotate it every time you use it. Eventually you'll 'use up' the edges and it will flatten out.

You will get more than enough rosin on your bow just by what's on the edges in the interim...

February 28, 2014 at 09:57 PM · I can assure you all that my rosin is properly scratched and such. And Elise, I've tried out 4 rosin before, I know how to handle if it's nice and flat. But this dented Hill rosin is baffling me :D

@Paul Deck-are you sure that's safe? I'm not afraid to play with fire but I don't want to blow my hard earn $15.

February 28, 2014 at 11:37 PM · It's perfectly normal, Skylar. Cakes of rosin are often like that. It happens when the liquid rosin is poured into a mould and is allowed to harden. Just use it normally. Eventually it will wear down and become flat.

March 1, 2014 at 12:30 AM · Greetings,

workers in industries involving molten rosin can suffer extremely sever burns. If you are nuts enough to want to play with molten rosin keep the following points in mind:

1) Soak the area in question for a minimum of fifteen minutes in cold water.

2) Do not try to remove the rosin on the injury since this takes the skin off and and markedly increases the severity of both the injury and the risk of dangerous infection.

3) After soaking protect with gauze and see immediate medical assistance.

If you get molten rosin on your eyes soak as above and do not try to open or shut them to dislodge the rosin.

just rub the bow up and down on it.......

Cheers,

Buri

March 1, 2014 at 04:06 AM · I think the risk of getting burned is higher boiling noodles for spaghetti or deep frying battered onion rings. We're not talking about huge kettles of rosin here after all. You use higher heat on your stove to fry an egg.

But I agree that the thing to do is just use it as is. When you have a few scraps you can try melting them together,

March 1, 2014 at 07:21 AM · Greetings,

not the spaghetti because otherwise all those arm waving Italians would be living on tomato salad and mozzarella cheese. Onion rings, maybe. One mustn't forget the hidden danger of how quickly these vats of oil become carcinogenic either.

Incidentally, I heard that in Britain deep fried snickers bars have become a new food group. If this is true, rather than leave the EU Old Blighty might consider leaving the planet.....

Cheers,

buri

March 1, 2014 at 02:49 PM · I have remolded old rosin cakes many times - heating them at a very low temperature in a TOASTER OVEN.

To reshape the molten rosin I have usually used a small aluminum foil cup that I formed over an appropriately sized, round bottle cap.

Andy

March 1, 2014 at 02:50 PM · I have remolded old rosin cakes many times - heating them at a very low temperature in a TOASTER OVEN.

To reshape the molten rosin I have usually used a small aluminum foil cup that I formed over an appropriately sized, round bottle cap.

Andy

March 2, 2014 at 05:01 AM · Buri, the deep fried Snickers bar is the proper dessert after one has eaten a chip butty.

March 2, 2014 at 06:17 AM · this is what happens when species over commit to Darwinism. In my day the chip butty was always followed by prunes.

This was Mars advice.

March 3, 2014 at 06:29 AM · Men...what'sup with you lot and food? We went from rosin to deepfried Fair food...*sigh*

March 3, 2014 at 07:18 AM · solving your problem made us hungry...

March 19, 2014 at 04:35 AM · *update

I couldn't find any silicone mold around my walmart. (Too big)and I don't want to tempt fate with my clumsiness by using tin foil. So after a few days of pondering, the moment of Eureka finally came in my Chem lab! Using those mini candle thing! I cleanse out the candle completely, leaving the small casing and come back to the Lab after school to use the tool they have (safety first)

Needless to say, my rosin is finally back to normal :D