Colwood Heavy Shading Wire Replaceable Tip

The Colwood  Heavy Shading Wire Replaceable Tip is an  S tip with Heavy Wire (3/16") for  Heavy Shading. The shading tip is designed to scorch large areas of wood, especially for gradient tones, shading, and filling in. The base of the Colwood Replaceable Woodburning Shading Tip works great for filling in black areas, such as signage, or in the background of a signature. You can also use the Shading tip to gently overlap layers to produce soft gradient tones, somewhat like the ones you would use to create portraitists.  Colwood  Heavy Shading Wire Replaceable Tip: Heavy Shading Wire. Size: 3/16". Replaceable Tip. Made in the USA What's Needed To Operate The Tip? The Colwood power control unit provides heat to the handpiece. A Colwood Handle for Replaceable Tip. It can be placed in the top of the handle, heated and you are ready to do some woodburning. Enhance your woodburning skills with this versatile woodburning tip! Designed to work with the popular Colwood handle, this tip can be used on a variety of woodburning units with the help of a simple adapter.Cleaning Replaceable TipsIf you are looking for a simple way to clean off the carbon build up on your woodburning tips, then you need this honing paper. This honing paper is a 600 grit paper which means it is rough enough that you will only need to slightly rub it against your wood burning tips to clear all the carbon build up away.Not cleaning your wood burning tips will result in damaging your woodburning tips and lessen the life span. If there is too much carbon build up you will not be able to woodburn with sufficient temperatures which will make your woodburning projects harder due to the heat fluctuation.  You can also use the Colwood cleaning burrs, simply insert the burr into your 1/8" collet on your handpiece, and you'll be able to remove carbon buildup in seconds. This will help keep your tips functioning properly for longer and give you more hours of comfortable burning.These are the best methods because it quickly and easily removes all the soot and residue from your tip, so you can continue your project with ease.  Having a clean woodburning tip will help to produce cleaner lines while wood burning.