Let’s keep it clean… I’m part way through restoring an old side-by-side shotgun. It was in pretty poor shape when I found it on gunbroker, but I saw potential in it, and bought it for a song. The case colors had all but disappeared from the receiver, the right sideplate was pitted with neglect, the barrels had red streaks of rust, and the wood looked like an old cricket bat. The worst part though, was the toe (bottom corner part) of the stock. Someone had overtightened the screw for the buttplate, and in doing so had caused the toe to split away from the stock. They had then attempted to repair it, and got glue everywhere. I suppose at least the glue held it to the gun until I got my hands on it… I removed the rust on the barrels with steel wool and oil (bluing was ok underneath) and I refinished the receiver and sideplates to ‘French Grey’ using phosphoric acid. I stripped the stock of the nasty coat of polyurethane that Bubba had thoughtlessly applied, revealing a reasonably nice piece of walnut. I carefully shaved away the splintered wood until the toe fit properly again, and epoxied it in place. Unfortunately, whoever had tried to glue the toe back on (Bubba again!) had also sanded the rough edges of the split wood. I had managed to glue the toe back in place ok, but the sanded-down edges left a groove where the crack had been. I could have sanded down the wood to remove the grooves, but that would have meant changing the shape of the stock too much. I decided that the only thing to do was to fill the cracks. An old woodworker’s trick is to use sawdust from the same piece of wood mixed with glue to make a color-matching filler. This presented two problems: 1. I had not sawed the wood, so I had no sawdust. 2. Even if I ‘borrowed’ some wood from a hidden area to make some sawdust, the sawdust would be the wrong color. Walnut darkens with age and UV light, so while the outside is a nice dark color, the inside is a lot lighter. I needed some kind of brown dust to mix with the glue to make the right color filler. Now, where could I get some brown dust? Maybe even a selection of slightly different shades of brown dust? Turns out that WoS Rose mixed with just a smidgen of French Carotte made the perfect color! I mixed it with clear epoxy and carefully worked it into the groove with a toothpick. The color match is so perfect that people don’t notice the crack until I point it out to them. Another benefit is that, presumably because of the plant-derived nature of the snuff, the snuff/epoxy filler has remained porous enough to accept the linseed oil that I have been applying over the past few weeks I know we’re an eclectic and inventive bunch here, so what’s the most unusual thing you’ve used snuff for (apart from its intended use)?

Tobacco is a good natural insecticide, and can be used against the smaller pests that afflict plants (such as aphids) or poultry housing (such as red mites). Stale or otherwise unpleasant snuff can be successfully dusted around areas where these critters are present. 19th Century farm books actually recommend tobacco powder for poultry areas, and I think this practice may have fallen off due more to political correctness than any risk of toxicity. Turkeys and chickens have long been used to free-range among growing tobacco plants to control hornworms, and if there was any danger in it, it would have been noticed.

Mosquito bites w/hdt and bohica to spice up some chili - works well

This thread is going to be amazing to read in a few days… I had heard of using tobacco as a pesticide, it is apparently very effective and obviously a more natural approach to pest control.

I want to use snuff to blow into an assailants face so I can claim snuff saved my life. Well not really, I want no assailants, but it would make a good comic book episode… :bz

@snuffysmiff Everybody will agree with me in suggesting you to use Fubar Bohica to get the best result… 8-X

@snuffysmiff Everybody will agree with me in suggesting you to use Fubar Bohica to get the best result… 8-X

What does Bohica have???

What does Bohica have???

Capsaicin. Suffice it to say, don’t rub your eyes or other sensitive areas after taking a pinch, unless you like pain.

I like the insecticide idea. Nicotine is produced by the tobacco plant for this very purpose. I can’t remember where I read it now, but one of the old snuff shops, I believe it was F&T, used to sell ‘botanical grade’ tobacco for this purpose. They could claim the tax back on damaged tobacco, but maybe they made more money selling it as insecticide.

I have seen survival guides and been through training where the use of tobacco (albeit snuff was not mentioned specifically) was indicated for dysentery/gi issues, cuts, stings and several other issues you may encounter. One excerpt includes:

Tobacco. Eat 1 to 1.5 cigarettes. The nicotine in the cigarette will kill or stun the worms long enough for your system to pass them. If the infestation is severe, repeat the treatment in 24 to 48 hours, but no sooner.

I have also seen how tobacco can be used, as already noted, to stain woods and if I recall it has been ground; soaked in water and used to restore patina on some finishes.

Doctors use to blow smoke up an ass for medical purpose ; like drowning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco\\_smoke\\_enema

Probably not that weird (at least in times past) but sometimes I brush my teeth with it.