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Baren Digest              Wednesday, 24 March 1999      Volume 06 : Number 501

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From: BHearn2001@aol.com
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:00:30 EST
Subject: [Baren 3701] Re:    Baren Digest V6 #500 

I am new to this site but really would like an opportunity to read the Ray H
entry of how you made your print.

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From: BHearn2001@aol.com
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:03:10 EST
Subject: [Baren 3702] Re:    Baren Digest V6 #499 

I am searching for web site connections or other connections to making books
by hand or bookarts in general.  Would be interested in a workshop covering
such.

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From: BHearn2001@aol.com
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:09:47 EST
Subject: [Baren 3703] Re:    Baren Digest V6 #498 

<< Dave's first video..>>
regarding the above (again, a new subscriber)  where is such available?

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From: Geoff Davis <gdavis@ccs.k12.in.us>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:40:12 -0500
Subject: [Baren 3704] Re: Book Arts Websites 

Two good places to start looking into book arts are:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~knops/index3.htm

http://www.dreamscape.com/pdverhey/

Good Luck!
Geoff

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From: "Ray Esposito" <brassring@brassring.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:41:18 -0500
Subject: [Baren 3705] e-bay 

Has anyone used e-bay?  I got a 1st edition of Michener's Floating World for
$40.  Today I saw a 2nd edition for $75 so you have to be careful.  A lot of
interesting woodblocks.  Go to the search and type in woodblock and you will
get them all.  Today there were about 155 available and most were Japanese.
It's a fun site to explore.

Ray

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From: amoss@mindspring.com (John Amoss)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:34:02 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Baren 3706] eBAY 

>Has anyone used e-bay?

There are very interesting things at the eBAY auction, although it's become
an addiction for a few people I know. I've picked up a half dozen prints
and a couple of books through it. As for books, I always check the search
engines (bookfinder, bibliofind, etc.) first to get an idea of the going
price before committing to a bid. On one occasion, the eBAY bid ($695) for
Toshi Yoshida's "Varieties of Japanese Prints, vol.1" was over twice what
an online bookseller was asking ($300)...

In my experiences, the sellers have behaved themselves, although I've also
seen several offset lithos being schlepped as woodblock prints. eBAY's
policy is "buyer beware" and the only official safeguard seems to be the
feedback rating system.

Occasionally, there has been some Japanese hand tools (planes, chisels) listed.

- -John

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From: Graham Scholes <gscholes@home.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:15:06 -0800
Subject: [Baren 3707] Re: e-bay 

>Has anyone used e-bay? 

Have surfed around the site.   Most interesting and hard not to put in a bit.
I was looking at stamps.

We have a couple from California that stay at Marnie's B&B who told us
about this site.
Cliff has usually got model kits listed.  He likes it and finds it a clean
and easy way to sell off his collection as he purchase other
items.......Art...

Graham

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From: Sherpsm@aol.com
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:10:00 EST
Subject: [Baren 3708] Re: e-bay 

Ebay 
Make sure you ask specific questions on condition, glue, tape etc. I once
asked a seller if he could see the bleedthrough of the color from the verso.
It was then that the seller realized that a copied image is not a Japanese
print. Also make sure that packaging and shipping is clear. I have received
"bent" creased prints. Buyer beware - but it is fun.
Joe

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From: David Bull <davebull@woodblock.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:06:59 +0900
Subject: [Baren 3709] Re: various ... 

BHearn wrote:
> << Dave's first video..>> 

The sign-up sheet to get a copy of the video, or to be put on the list
for just viewing it, is at:

http://www.woodblock.com

... click on 'Administration Links' 

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> I am new to this site but really would like an opportunity to 
> read the Ray H entry of how you made your print.

All the information that people have sent in about how they made their
exchange prints has been uploaded to 'their' pages in the relevant
section of the website.

Go to the same 'woodblock.com' address, and choose 'Exchange 1999'.

Select Ray's name to read his entry ...

(This is maybe a good time to remind everybody who was participated in
the exchange, that space is available for you if you have anything that
you would like people to read while they look at your print - a
description of the process, your thoughts on why you chose that
particular image, etc. etc.   Just send it to me directly in an email,
and I will update your page.)

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New prints in the 'Who is Baren?' page last night ... from New Zealand
...

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It seems that my message last weekend about sign-ups for the new
exchange was one of the half-dozen [Baren] postings that evening that
was chewed up by a gremlin on the 'net somewhere.  

So ... a reminder that the first stage sign-up for the next exchange is
now open (people who weren't in the previous exchange).  The sheet is
found at the same 'Administration Links' page that I mentioned above ...

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And now, another in what seems to be a continuous series of 'bad news'
postings from Dave ...

I received a phone call yesterday evening from the craftsmen's
association - yes, it's time to head off to another funeral ...  Mr.
Ogura Hanbei, the 'dean' of the carvers here, has passed away.  

This is another very big blow; Mr. Ito, who died in December, and this
gentleman were the two oldest, most respected, and most skillful of the
remaining carvers.  Nobody else comes close to their level of skills.  

For me now (on the carving side of things anyway) there is nobody left
who I feel able to visit when I need advice or have questions to ask ...

Dave

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From: dean brink <interpoetics@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:55:04 -0800
Subject: [Baren 3710] Re: experimental transparencies 

James and Jean thanks very much for opening up crossfertilized acrylic
woodblock printing. I'll let everyone know what works as the sticky
experiment starts to coalesce over the next month or so.

I still have lots of questions about techniques used in many of the
Exchange prints (in later posts).

dean

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From: Gary Luedtke <GLuedtke@compuserve.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:57:44 -0500
Subject: [Baren 3711] Condolences 

Dave,

    Most sorry to hear of the passing of another of your friends and
mentors.   While you, who knew him, can morn him on a more personal level,
we are left to morn him in a more historical way.   Centuries of tradition
is passing with these last in the line of carvers and printers, like the
last colorful leaves falling from a tree in Autumn.  Their splendor will be
missed.

   My condolences to the family and many friends of Mr. Ogura Hanbei.

Gary

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