My Experience Making Lead White - Dutch Stack Method 

Thank you Samuel and all those commenting here. I hope I dont have to do this but am very pleased to know how. (Would try when i get land probably...) It's the clearest instructions I've run into.

Ah, the joys of making your own personal toxic waste site. I know what that's like. I've done the process and my biggest concern here is that you haven't washed your lead white enough to remove all the lead acetate. (The blue stuff.) For the uninitiated, lead paint, or more precisely the blue stuff in lead paint, lead acetate is very sweet. It's why in the past children have been known to eat lead paint chips. That blue water is very sweet. You can smell the sweetness in the air as you wash the lead particles. It's important to wash and rewash the lead until the water the lead sits in is clear of any coloration. For the volume of lead you're producing it would be worthwhile to buy a mechanical grinder. And it helps a ton if you use a strong vinegar. Most store vinegar is like 4% or 8% in water. One can purchase 20% vinegar on line. It hastens the corrosion of the lead sheets. Well worth using. Once the lead acetate is completely removed, and most of the clear water poured off into another container, the wet pigment can be spooned in little nests of coffee filters set on a layer of absorbent towels or cloth or drying rack and allowed to air dry. It's a less messy process than your micro cloth method. Speaking to the uninitiated again, the lead chips, the dry clumps of lead white are very hard. Surprisingly hard. It is a relief to when the lead is finally mulled to a grinding state. But delightful when it's finally rubbed up into a paint with oil. It is a challenging process. Not for the faint of heart. There is a lot of waste. Horse manure. Containers, jars, towels etc. contaminated with lead. Gallons of waste lead water. I think I had like 25 gallons of lead water to get 5 lbs. of lead white. It can be worth the effort if you're a serious painter. I like your paintings so it's clear you are dedicated to craft and want for the best materials possible. Stack lead white is proven to be a superior pigment to work with. I wish you many years of good health and successful painting. Never settle. Keep striving for higher levels of excellence. Both this video and your paintings demonstrate your dedication to put in the work. Here's wishing you the absolute best.

Sam, I am absolutely enthralled with the painting of you holding the "first fire" while gazing at the rocket. It gives me pangs of the painting style of the old renaissance masters. I'd love to have that hanging on my wall.

I made my own a few months ago. Very satisfying process, and well worth it if you want the best oil paint in the world.

Probably the best processing of white lead I saw. Thanks for sharing.

I like to use vinegar to dissolve the lead white with no grinding. Then rinse with water till vinegar smell is gone. Then make put in a enamel pot and use a hot plate on low to dry the cake. Good video, good luck and happy painting.

Wow! Incredibly interesting and fascinating!!!!

You are amazing. thank you for all the info.

Well done, Thank you.

Very cool

Greetings from Guatemala, a good video brother

Are they making white lead oil paint again? It is wonderful for artist!

How do you make sure that none after you will use this exact spot for growing veggies? Future generations will have no clue about your experiments in the grass. There was a case in Switzerland where the cown would have serious problems and they found out that there was lead contamination from about 200 years ago. Just curious to understand your thoughtprocess. I started painting with oil colors as a child. I wish some adult back then would have warned me about their toxic ingredients, but they themselves had no clue or awareness about this. You are a talented artist, please stay safe and healthy, especially when dealing with lead-based paint and other known offenders.

Dear Sam, along with thanking you for the contribution you generate with your channel, which is very interesting for all of us who are starting out in this wonderful craft that is oil painting, I wanted to ask you, regarding the famous white lead, if it is that it is perhaps possible to use a basic lead carbonate sold by some chemical substance sales companies. I consulted with them if it could be used for such purposes, but they said they didn't know. Therefore, my question is: can said basic lead carbonate be used to make Lead White, or should it only be the pigment resulting from the traditional method of obtaining it? That. Greetings and hugs from Chile!!!!

How do you safely dispose of the waste particles after the waste water evaporates? Intrigued by this process, but very concerned about proper disposal

did you put the horse manure on the lead itself? inside the jars?

I've also made some of this with a similar setup. I started havesting the flakes, but they weren't corroded all the way through, so there are very thin flakes of the pure lead mixed with the rest. Do you know how or if it's necessary to remove them?

There's a lot of Lead Carbonate flying away in this video 😮

Also...forgive me for asking the obvious, but if the reaction is Pb+CO2=PbCO3 (obviously this isn't the balanced formula), wouldn't combining acetic acid + baking soda produce all the CO2 you need, without necessitating the use of horse manure?

Could your lead have more of those metals in it, causing the commercially available lead lighter? I know nothing, just curious

Is there a way to make zinc dioxide at home?

...I used yeast and sugar as my CO2 source....didnt want to get my hands dirty lol

The lead white of the Old Masters in the 15th or 17th century was much lighter and even more corporeal in consistency.

interesting; you should better work outside when processing the powder

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TUL7vvgEyQA.html 10 minute video.

Saturnismo. Cuidado. Es aconsejable moler también con algo de barniz de almáciga.

Could this get any messier? I say no!

Bees can be angered by the scent of carbon dioxide.

Very cool