Humidity and Chalk
- Thread starter Johnnyt
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I htink it gets sort of pasty and hard to apply
What has your experience been? I've heard of people keeping it in the frig.
tested this awhile back
I bought a gross of the blue Masters chalk with the flag on it. I baked some of it in the oven at I think about 200 for a few hours and then zip locked it to keep it dry. It was dry and came apart easier than before baking, seemed more like Masters green than blue. It played a little better than the plain blue.
I forgot a piece on my back patio and it sat out there for months, less than two miles from Lake Ponchatrain, high humidity. It was about as moist as chalk could possibly be without soaking it in something. I tried it. It did go on a little gummy but it played better than the regular Masters blue too!
Drier plays better, wetter plays better, or more likely any change plays better. I decided to forget about messing with chalk. I keep mine in Ziplocs fresh from when I bought the last gross new. It plays just fine.
The abrasive in the chalk is what does the actual work so as long as it stays on the tip it should work fine, wet, dry, or somewhere in the middle.
Hu
I bought a gross of the blue Masters chalk with the flag on it. I baked some of it in the oven at I think about 200 for a few hours and then zip locked it to keep it dry. It was dry and came apart easier than before baking, seemed more like Masters green than blue. It played a little better than the plain blue.
I forgot a piece on my back patio and it sat out there for months, less than two miles from Lake Ponchatrain, high humidity. It was about as moist as chalk could possibly be without soaking it in something. I tried it. It did go on a little gummy but it played better than the regular Masters blue too!
Drier plays better, wetter plays better, or more likely any change plays better. I decided to forget about messing with chalk. I keep mine in Ziplocs fresh from when I bought the last gross new. It plays just fine.
The abrasive in the chalk is what does the actual work so as long as it stays on the tip it should work fine, wet, dry, or somewhere in the middle.
Hu
I keep mine in the frig, and I like it better like that.