Barrel vise question

[rardoin]

I use leather swaths in my Viper vise. No slippage/no marring.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I have a little bottle on the bench with a slurry of denatured alcohol and bowlers rosin. Shake it up, dab a little where the paper is going to be, and let the alcohol flash off. Wrap a sticky note around the barrel and go to work. Usually takes about 15 seconds. Nice thin even coating of rosin, no dry rosin all over hell and gone, no slippage at all, and NO damage to any finish. Cleans up completely with a patch soaked with DNA.
I wish this was my idea but I got it from a Brownells Kink book/Roland Beaver.

How thick is this slurry?

 

[kendog]

How thick is this slurry?

Not very thick at all. A little thicker than GOOD tequila.

 

[tobnpr]

Passed to me by another smith as I was cussing a Tikka T3x barrel, spinning despite a HD vise and custom turned bushing...

Some 100 grit AlOx out of blast cabinet, and a few drops of oil to make a slurry.
Barrel didn't slip despite 500-600 ft lbs torque, and didn't mar the blued finish either (it was going to be Cerakoted anyway).

 

[pirate ammo]

I use brown paper bags from the grocery store and cut them into strips and wrap around the shank.

where do find a grocery store now that uses paper bags,damn I'm in the wrong place