so I'm at the point of using BP88 for hot cleaning and as a base layer. Then I put on wax of the day for temps & snow conditions. E.g. today I put on ch6 because temps were supposed to be in the low 20s F with new snow in the northeast (US).
So when I do this, I refresh the base layer, let it cool for the better part of a day and then only scrape it. Then I crayoned on the ch6, ran the iron over it "lightly" (quickly, only enough to melt it since the crayoned layer wasn't thick) and then decided to melt some on since the toplayer didn't look substantial. I then let that cool, scraped and corked.
I haven't started using brushes yet. Yup, amateur, still learning.
Apart from that, is my sequencing of baselayer on, cool, scrape, toplayer on, cool, scrape, finish, roughly correct ? I'm guessing that as the toplayer is melted on, it's going to melt and mate (mix) with some of the baselayer, but that that's not a bad thing. I try to bound that by letting the base layer "set".
So when I do this, I refresh the base layer, let it cool for the better part of a day and then only scrape it. Then I crayoned on the ch6, ran the iron over it "lightly" (quickly, only enough to melt it since the crayoned layer wasn't thick) and then decided to melt some on since the toplayer didn't look substantial. I then let that cool, scraped and corked.
I haven't started using brushes yet. Yup, amateur, still learning.
Apart from that, is my sequencing of baselayer on, cool, scrape, toplayer on, cool, scrape, finish, roughly correct ? I'm guessing that as the toplayer is melted on, it's going to melt and mate (mix) with some of the baselayer, but that that's not a bad thing. I try to bound that by letting the base layer "set".