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10-25-2006, 12:43 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Berkeley, CA | | | Getting the rosin out of the cup
Relative newcomer to using a bow, and likewise rosin.. I got some Pops Rosin. The actual rosin is in a paper cup, stored in a red plastic container. After peeling away enough of the paper to apply to my bow, I notice that the rosin has now softened and merged into the paper cup. I can see no way to separate paper and rosin. What is the recommended way to deal with this? Was I supposed to remove the paper cup when I first got the rosin, and then wrap the rosin in Saran wrap after?
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10-25-2006, 08:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Houston, TX | | | I recommend peeling off all the paper (bits of rosin will have to be sacrificed) and then putting the hunk of rosin in the red cup. Always store the red cup upright!
To get the rosin out, you just roll the cup between your palms (like making snakes with play-doh) and "pop" the rosin hunk loose from the bottom by pressing against the bottom of the cup with your thumb. |
10-25-2006, 10:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: the end of the section | | Or get some real rosin that doesn't look like something you'd feed your pet goat.  |
10-25-2006, 10:52 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | | I'm also a relative newbie to this - but I found it easy, just to peel back a little of the paper round the edges and leave it as it was - so, use it and then peel a little more of the paper back each time.
I assumed this was how it was designed ?
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10-25-2006, 12:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Houston, TX | | The problem is after the first time it gets warm - the paper and rosin become one.  |
10-25-2006, 12:53 PM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | I suppose it never gets as hot as Texas, round here!! 
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10-25-2006, 08:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Hartford, CT | | | I had the same problem, with Pops' Rosin; my teacher said to put it in the fridge for a while, which makes it easier to separate the paper from the rosin. He said to then peel off all the paper and keep the rosin in the plastic container. Seemed to work for me. |
10-25-2006, 08:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Paducah, KY | | | I'd suggest throwing the pops away and nabbing up some Nyman's. |
10-25-2006, 10:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | Don't worry if a little bit of paper gets in the way. You can rip of the paper when it surfaces. No biggie.
Give Carlson's bass rosin a shot.
Joe
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10-25-2006, 10:35 PM
| | ...Bluesin' and Funkin' | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | | I use scissors and cut the rim of the paper cup lower and lower as the rosin decreases over time.
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10-26-2006, 09:10 AM
| | | | After cooling rosin in fridge, as already suggested to make paper removal easier, replace paper in the same manner, ( small folds with paper ending up a little higher than rosin cake ) with Tyvek paper. You can get this for free at a post office in the form of large next day mail envelope. Very tough stuff, doesn't stick as much to rosin and won't tear. |
10-29-2006, 01:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Irvine, CA | | | Peel all of the paper off as soon as you get it. I tried it with my new cake and it's been perfectly fine just in the container w/o the ghetto wrap. |
10-29-2006, 12:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | Cool tip-
Use a paperback book and a razor blade.
Hold the blade on top of the book,
rotate the rosin against it,
and you have a nice even line of paper
removed all the way around!
(be careful!)
LM Bass |
10-30-2006, 08:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Portland, OR | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by LM Bass Cool tip-
Use a paperback book and a razor blade.
Hold the blade on top of the book,
rotate the rosin against it,
and you have a nice even line of paper
removed all the way around!
(be careful!)
LM Bass | Ya, and being true to its nature, freed of its paper bounds
it will burble all over and become a mutant gooey blob
with the paper now deep inside where you can't get at it
LOL, I would never feed it to a pet goat were I to have
one
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10-30-2006, 11:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | I meant with Nyman's, not pop's.
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