Replicating Bakelite Colour

[Chris KC]

Never tried it myself Jamie. Reading accounts by other people, one route is to dye or use filler material (e.g. carbon black, or even powdered bakelite perhaps?); another is to machine from solid, starting with materials such as ebonite or tufnol. Or to machine from existing (scrap) bakelite artefacts (at which point there is usually at least one hysterical interjection about asbestosis, which usually culiminates in "wear a dust mask and you'll be fine").