Baren Digest               Sunday, 27 August 2000       Volume 12 : Number 1126


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From: Vollmer/Yamaguchi <jy6@columbia.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 12:04:21 -0400
Subject: [Baren 11127] Would? 

I am interested to hear what Mark and Yuri have to say about their wood.
However, I don't know how big a market woodcut (even including oil AND
waterbase) will be for them.

I'd gladly pay $25 for a nice 18 x 24" block, but how many do I use? Ten or
a dozen in a year? This year I"ve been teaching a lot of classes, and have
used maybe 60 9 x 12" blocks, priced at $5 to $10 apeice.

I just don't see how this can be enough to support a business, its such a
specialty, we can pay more, but the quantities involved will be pretty
small.

My dream is to find clear basswood in 16" widths. My woodworking skills are
nil, so I can't see myself gluing planks together. Shina ply seems to be
the best I can do. It's a bit mechanical, but light, even grained and comes
in any size you please.

But what am I doing on the internet!!! I just started a new block, better
get back to

Cut! Print!


April Vollmer
174 Eldridge St, NYC 10002, 212-677-5691
http://www.aprilvollmer.com



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From: Mike Lyon <mikelyon@mlyon.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 11:34:12 -0500
Subject: [Baren 11128] Re: Baren Digest V12 #1125 

Seems to me this is that beautiful Baltic Birch plywood we use for 
cabinetry and the like...  If so, the glue used to hold the veneer together 
is water soluble, and the veneer will lift easily if it gets wet... It is 
beautiful stuff, though, with more plys than our typical construction grade 
stuff...  So, Mark and Yuri, is it like that?

Mike Lyon


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From: Mike Lyon <mikelyon@mlyon.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 11:39:35 -0500
Subject: [Baren 11129] Re: Baren Digest V12 #1125 

One more note on the Baltic Birch plywood I get here in Kansas City -- it 
is a Siberian product, clear on one side, very good on the other, and 
available in 5' x 5' sheets in various thicknesses 1/4" to 1" here.  Not 
terribly expensive.

mikelyon@mlyon.com
http://www.mlyon.com

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From: Wanda <robertson@canby.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 10:52:41 -0700
Subject: [Baren 11130] Re: Source for birch blocks ... <200008260109.KAA19278@ml.asahi-net.or.jp> <200008260325.MAA13506@ml.asahi-net.or.jp> 

Gee, I don't know. I rather enjoy hearing of new sources for supplies.
And since these guys are in Oregon, I enjoy it even more. It wasn't a
"spam" type post and I (for one) would enjoy some posts from people who
are trying to sort of widen our horizons in woodblock. I really like to
carve birch. Better than Shina for my purposes, I think. Perhaps when I
try cherry I'll like that even better, who knows. I never did get a
chance to try the basswood, but I think that it might be too soft for
me. I like a wood that fights back a little.

As to how many blocks & sizes. Last year, I think I used about 50 blocks
in various sizes - for oil inks and hanga. This year, I'm leaning way
more to the hanga side. Usually 8x10, but sometimes I like the odd sizes
- - 10x10 square, 5x10, 11x15. Prices I've paid go all the way from $21
for a 10x13 lino block, to $70 for a 4x8 foot piece of "apple core"
birch plywood. I think that April is right - it would be a small (but
growing) market. But, a very appreciative group to market to!

IMHO/$.02 worth

Wanda

Graham Scholes wrote:
> 
> I belong to another list server and the act of doing business is not
> encouraged.
> I would recommend that we do not have this venue become commercial.
snip 
> What do the bareners think?

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From: "john ryrie" <jryrie@one.net.au>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:22:33 +1000
Subject: [Baren 11131] what to do with a Mac? charset="iso-8859-1" 

>  > Eli Griggs  said
 Someone has given me an old Mac LC, with Applewriter II printer and I
> was wondering if a machine this out of date could have a useful life in
the
> printmakers studio?  Any suggestions would be appreciated as long as they
do
> not involve anatomy, explosions or high rise apartments.

You could use it to calculate the distance from the trapezius muscle to the
anterior superior iliac spi.... Ops! that's right no anatomy

You could put it in a microwave oven an then run... sorry no explosions, I
forgot.

You could take it to the top of a... Doe! sorry did it again.

You could use it a wait to flatten out you paper.

John




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