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Baren Digest             Tuesday, 30 November 1999     Volume 09 : Number 802

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From: Don Furst <furstd@uncwil.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 08:07:29 -0500
Subject: [Baren 6879] Re: Schools w/handmade paper program 

>Someone else mentioned the Univ of Iowa.  Does 
>anyone know about their printmaking dept?

Amanda,
I did my graduate study there in the 70s. Intaglio has long been the
primary area, although they also have a good litho facility now. (one of
our Baren members, Roxanne Sexauer, concentrated on woodcuts in her
graduate work there.  Perhaps she could give you some additional info about
the program.) Iowa does have a nice papermaking facility, and you could
also get involved in their excellent bookmaking program.  
- --Don Furst

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From: Dutch Stowe <dutch@crystalridge.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 05:59:12 -0800
Subject: [Baren 6882] Re: Carving Board 

	Graham you wrote
	"I believe I posted the construction of my carving board ..... didn't I?"

	if you did I can't find it if you didn't please do and let us know where
to find it. 	

	In either case this looks just the thing I need I was about to construct a
bench hook and a slanted platform and what you have solves both problems.
Looking forward to seeing the construction instructions

thanks dutch

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From: Dutch Stowe <dutch@crystalridge.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 06:19:40 -0800
Subject: [Baren 6883] Proposal/Request 

	After reading what graham had to say about carving and printing I started
to wonder what other people are doing. For me I can't stand for any length
of time so graham printing method won't work for me. Similarly Like graham
mentioned I might have been able to set cross legged like Dave when I was
35 or 40 but both of those have long going and I need to work out something
so as not to be come a complete casualty of my work. 

	Matt the bench I see you using in some of the pictures looks very
efficient and is apparently portable (Which may be like the ordinal
portable TV :-)) did you create that and construct it ? if so would you be
willing to share the plans. It looks like you set to low for me but I am
sure that I could adapt it for me and my need to set upright if you
included the height of the seat also. 

	anyway as we all work differently I thought that if we had a lot of input
about what each of you use for printing and carving. Us beginners would be
able to adapt the best of all worlds for ourselves.

thanks dutch 

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From: Maria Arango <Maria@mariarango.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 08:20:16 -0800
Subject: [Baren 6884] Re: daubers and such 

Re: daubers
Easy and cheap daubers (Rembrandt has them for $16.00 ea.) can be made
from your standard leather "working" gloves obtainable at any home
supplies store. Just cut and stuff the fingers of the glove with foam,
sand, or ??? depending on how firm you want your dauber to be. Then add
a handle if you wish and tie off the cut finger part.
Re: frame around
Dutch, I use the entire block for image and obtain a border by rigging
some foam board against the edge of my printing board. I stick the foam
board right on the board with wheat paste so I can remove it later with
ease. This eliminates cleaning off the border every time or the masking
procedures described by others. Works with a press also, just use
cardboard for a base to glue the edges of the foamboard. Check out
http://www.printmakingstudio.com/method.html and click on Woodcut Method
for a picture.
Re: publicity
Sarah, Try the links page in my web site, at the bottom you will find
many art listings that I have exchanged links with. The majority of
those have newsletters that will publish press-releases (or is that
e-press-releases?). Also, many of them will let you post an image or two
for free or at least list your web site. I get many hits off of those
sites.
Health to all,
Maria

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From: Vollmer/Yamaguchi <jy6@columbia.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 12:20:02 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Baren 6886] framed 

It just occurred to me that I should mention that in my early life I
printed many oil base woodcuts. I can hardly remember, it was so long ago,
but it seems to me that the frame was SEPARATE from the block, so when I
rolled up the block on a table, I naturally didn't get any ink on the
frame. I carried the inked block back to the press, where the L-shaped
frame was waiting with paper taped to it. Slide the block in, and run it
through the press.

I wonder if you could use kento cuts on the frame instead of tape? Maybe
not, the press pulls on the paper too much?

April Vollmer

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From: Gregory Robison <grobison@swiftuganda.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:16:50 +0300
Subject: [Baren 6887] Re: matt's bench 

Kampala, 29 November 1999

I'm also very interested in any input in response to
John's question about work space and especially furniture.
 I've been designing...well, doodling...some furniture for
my studio.  Because I move a lot, I want to have some
good, compact furniture & equipment that is appropriate
and can have a long productive life.  Both weight and
space are a concern, so I tend to think in terms of a
"ship board" or "safari" studio in terms of design, i.e.,
no doubt the same concerns of "apartment-based" artists. 
I'm having my cabinetmaker here do up some stuff for me
out of tropical hardwoods, but obviously he's totally
dependent on my direction.  The first piece is the bulky
but unavoidable flat file, both for unused paper and works
of art.  The second piece will be a work table, and I am
quite interested in Members' opinions about ergonomics. 
My current idea is for a table with a retractable "upper
deck" which would serve as a drawing/writing table, with
the "lower deck" for priniting and perhaps carving.  The
third & last piece will be a somewhat uninteresting
cabinet for materials, but distinctive by its "knock-down"
and modular design, I hope.  If it's not appropriate to
discuss this in the plenary session, I would be happy to
hear off-line from anyone facing these issues.

Gregory Robison

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From: Graham Scholes <gscholes@home.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:47:20 -0800
Subject: [Baren 6888] Re: Carving Board 

Dutch has asked me to post the construction of my carving board...

I sent this to someone and would appreciate if that someone would let me
know in what form I sent it and who that someone is....
(I feel like I am going in decreasing circles with that statement.)

To continue.... If I haven't I will put together a drawing and post it on
my web site..... I will keep you posted.. I am into a new piece so it may
be January before this happens.

Graham

ps. Is anybody interested in my printing desk.  I made this and you will
need a full compliment of woodworking tools to make it. It is 8' x  42"
wide and 36" high with 8 caster to move around my studio.  Has about 16
sliding trays for paper/prints/drawings/junk storage.   It really is quite
wonderful as it serves as a storage/printing thingie combined.

Graham

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From: Matthew.W.Brown@VALLEY.NET (Matthew W Brown)
Date: 29 Nov 99 17:09:00 EST
Subject: [Baren 6889] Benches 

John & Gregory,
	Some years back I made a bench for printing which can be put back
together as a self-contained box and is very handy for doing printing demos,
etc. Actually it is every bit as 'official' as my more permanent bench. 

 Dave sits lower than I do (I am up on a little box about six inches high) and
when he set up in my shop here he wanted the bench surface lower. The end
result seemed similar. 	Bill Paden is worried that my bench is set up with not
enough distance between shoulders and printing surface, but it feels really
right to me. Bill Paden stands to print; actually I think all three are quite
close; which is having the printing surface a little bit below your navel.
After Dave's visit I was inspired to change my permanent bench a bit; but I
didn't change the ergonomics at all, rather the relationship of the stuff
around (i.e. to be able to pull prints from in front rather than only on the
left hand side).

	You can see the portable bench in action at: 
http://ooloopress.com/sunapee99.html   .
I'll try to put up better pictures of this portable bench thing soon, as it is
pretty neat.

Matt

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From: David Bull <davebull@woodblock.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 08:40:44 +0900
Subject: [Baren 6890] Re: Benches and stuff ... 

Greg wrote:
> Because I move a lot, I want to have some good, compact furniture & 
> equipment that is appropriate and can have a long productive life.  

Hey, do I have something for you!

http://woodblock.com/encyclopedia/updates.html

And it's not even patented ... go ahead and build yourself one!

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I've received a number of offers in the past few days to help with
various [Baren] web pages. I'll try and sort out how to handle this ...
and will be in touch with you soon. Please hang on for a bit ...

Dave

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From: Graham Scholes <gscholes@home.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 21:10:07 -0800
Subject: [Baren 6891] Carving/Printing WORKSTATION 

As indicated this morning ... or was that yesterday....what did I have for
breakfast !!!!.... here are images of my studio showing the printing table
(it is on casters) and the carving table.

Should be of interest to some....

http://members.home.net/woodblocks/Worktables.html

Any questions ?

Graham

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