Hi yall,
I have this friend who has a very leaky bag. It leaks like some great…leaky…thing. He also has 1.5 metric tons of gigs this holiday season.
Do you have a favorite bag seasoning recipe? Send it in! No seasoning that flakes, please.
t
Royce has a recipe that works well for him, give him a shout.
Here is a collection of different seasoning stuff … it’s In German, but maybe it still helps some of us. 
http://www.cornemuse.de/konstruktives/abdichten/abdichten.htm
I’m using something like this .. works very well:
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- 125 ml glycerin
- 10 sheet gelatine
- 5g sorbic acid OR several spoons of honey
Get a new bag off a local pipemaker. L&M bags don’t require seasoning for $100 or so. They don’t sell retaill, but your pipemaker can sell you one. All the mess and hassle of seasoning a bag just isn’t worth it IMHO with new bags being so cheap.
djm
On the rare occasion you’re not giving a smart-ass reply, you’re usually ‘on target’ with your answer.
I agree. Don’t mess with a fixup, get a new bag.
Its always bottoms with you, isn’t it? 
djm
My friend got his bag sorted out.
Mixed 1:3 crisco to Murphy’s oil soap. 'Bout a half cup in the sack. Swished around. Drained.
His set plays MUCH tighter now…even if it is only a stopgap measure.
He thanks Baglady for the recipe.
Isn’t that Royce’s recipe?
Ted Anderson gave me something like that receipe about 25 years ago
Also works great in mulled wine.
You guys could probably put a few drops of smelly stuff from Bath and Body Works to get the ladies while you’re playing.
The voice of experience?.. er, not that I am interested in attracting any more ladies, mind you… really… uh, bye… 
…don’t need to.
And say, is that a merlin in your hand
…or are you just glad to see me?
T
no, purely hypothetical. Besides, my current bag is vinyl. That gives me an idea! Maybe if I spray some smelly stuff in there, my wife will like my playing better?
No hocus pocus just down home cookin’. This stuff will stick to your insides and not soak through to your ribs.
Hope your friend’s gigs go well till your friend’s new bag comes.
Isn’t that just exactly when Royce’s “Pipe Major’s Handbook” came out with that recipe in it…?
Smells better than Airtight and doesn’t grease its way through like Neatsfoot Oil in any case. I tied in an NSP a few months back for a friend that came from Northumberland in classic style, that cardboard-like sheepskinnish leather that’s about a quarter inch thick, boiled in oil and pre-greased and I just love it when you crank the cord around a stock and it squirts you in the eye.
Down home? Ain’t that south of the Mason-Dixon line?
Never quote a piper out of context! 
Royce’s bag seasoning recipe works very well, BTW.
So much for that doughnut… gotta get another…
Have to disagree about the L&M bags. Tied one on to my D set about a year and a half ago and another onto a flat set more recently. The D set had been getting harder to play - checked the bag and found that air wis pissing out through the seams. Checked the C and found that there were micro-leaks all around the stitching. Contacted L&M about the problem and they told me that they don’t glue the bags and that they recommend seasoning them every 6 months or so (could be wrong the period of time there, but on a regular basis anyway). They’re good bags but do need seasoning. There’s probably a good reason for this (any pipe/bag-makers reading?), but why not use glue as well as stitching? I put it to L&M and they informed me that it was the traditional way of making a bag.