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Baren Digest             Thursday, 25 November 1999     Volume 09 : Number 796

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From: barnaby.smith@immi.gov.au
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 15:10:04 +1000
Subject: [Baren 6810] Re: Where to get brushes ... 

Thank you Dave - very much appreciated - all that was entirely clear - I'll have
a look on their home page and compare with your item price list and e:mail them
- - I will send International Money Order as you suggest.  aragato and regards
Barnaby

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From: David Bull <davebull@woodblock.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 18:02:04 +0900
Subject: [Baren 6813] Re: Wanda gets pasted again ... 

Wanda wrote:
> Dave, do you mean double the amount of paste? Or double of everything? 

Well, it's hard to answer that, because Graham's original comment about
the pigment was simply '3 to 4 dabs of pigment'.

Figuring out the amount of paste is sometimes difficult, because you
can't really _see_ it, but the pigment balance is much easier.  Not much
on the block, and the colour is too faint - a lot on the block and the
colour is thicker and richer.  The decision is up to you ...


> I have also tried your suggestion to mix the paste & pigment 
> in a separate container & _then_ brush it on the block. 

Me?  Mix the paste and pigment together in a separate container?  Did I
say that?   For 'normal' printing I never do this - it is just too
difficult to adjust the balance once you are running.  About the only
time when I ever do something like this is when I want a tint so light
that it is almost invisible in the finished print.  Then I use just
paste ... but paste with ever so small an amount of pigment mixed into
it.  

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John asked:
> I finally have time to listen to that new interview with the  
> ... author of the book on woodcut. 

Well, it's not a conversation with the author himself (Frank
Morley-Fletcher), but with his nephew (who is now in his mid-80s) ... 
You can find it by going to the Library section of the Encyclopedia and
selecting the book by Morley-Fletcher.  You will see the interview link
near the Table of Contents section ...

Getting that Encyclopedia properly indexed is a mountainous task that
I'm just not up to at the moment ...  Give me an 'intern' for a few
months, and we could maybe get something done on this!

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Barnaby wrote:
> A friend of mine from Australia had a brush company in Sydney make up
> some brushes for him to specification, which worked out relatively 
> cheaply buying in bulk.

This sounds most interesting ... can you expand on this please?

Dave

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