woodburning tips for polymer stippling.

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Scorch

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Wood burning takes high temp and high wattage to keep the tip hot enough to burn the wood. Stippling polymer is not an exercise in controlled melting so much as a "feel" for depth and detail. When stippling plastic, less is better. The tool you show is adjustable, so that may be good. I use a $10 Radio Shack soldering iron (it's not hot enough to do serious soldering, but works fine for stippling).
 
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mete

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polymers and filled [glass filled ]can also be checkered with typical checkering files or carved [best done with small V or U gouges.] My shotgun has a squirrel and an acorn .
 
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Dixie Gunsmithing

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That Walnut Hollow iron is only a 25 watt iron, so it may be okay. Woodburning and soldering irons both run at the same temperature for fixed models. The 25 watt models cool quicker when placed on something, so it might work, but you would have to watch it.

However, when working with plastics, etc, and wood, one is better to have one that you can control the heat on. I have a Hakko soldering iron, with adjustable temperature, that not only will solder well, but wood burning can be done, and the temperature dropped so as not to over-heat plastics.

Harbor Freight used to sell an iron, which was renamed, but it was really the Hakko 936, (I looked under its hood), and it was a good iron, but I'm not sure if they still carry it. You can find them, along with replacement irons, on eBay.

Below is a 40 watt made by the same company that makes it for Weller. It will work for this too, and has adjustable temperature.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stahl-Tools-SSVT-Variable-Temperature-Soldering-Station-374-100/321456079471?_trksid=p2045573.c100034.m2102&_trkparms=aid%3D555012%26algo%3DPW.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D23778%26meid%3D8690476670892156425%26pid%3D100034%26prg%3D10035%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D8%26sd%3D371091714881
 
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