Baren Digest Friday, 19 September 2003 Volume 24 : Number 2377 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kat Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:44:26 -0700 Subject: [Baren 22822] Puzzle Project Maria, That Puzzle Project imagemap is awesome. All that the eleven missing blockees have to do is mirror *your* ambition and effort on this. Thank you! :) - -- Love <3 & Lint * ! Kat Pukas http://www.thepiz.org/milkyscarabs ------------------------------ From: Cucamongie#aol.com Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 23:19:18 -0400 Subject: [Baren 22823] thanks Thanks Marilynn and Barbara for your nice words about my drawings. I draw a LOT, and feel that it's such an essential part of my whole process. Maria, you're amazing, and thanks for putting together the puzzle pages so we can see all the different blocks and how they're going to go together. are you going to use a steamroller to pull the print? :) Happy printing! best, Sarah ------------------------------ From: James Bryant Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 23:11:11 -0500 Subject: [Baren 22824] Re: identifying my tools If you decide to pursue this, I would recommend Simon Brett's book, "Wood Engraving: How to Do It." It's a very good book, also the Wood Engravers Network http://www.woodengravers.net/home.htm All very helpful to me when i tried my first engraving this summer. jim- >On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 04:26 PM, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > >On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:25:57PM -0700, Maria Arango wrote: >Is all of this the face? >http://strangelittlegirl.com/tools/face.jpg > >Yep, that's a red face alright, it must be embarrassed...no ridges on >engraving tools. > >I think it's mad that it'd been used up-side-down. ;) > >Don't know any engraving tools with two faces, unless it's a >multi-line >tool; if it's an engraving diamond tool it should just have one face >unless >it's been altered for some mysterious purpose. > >I looked at it again very carefully and realized it's just the >reflection >that's dented, not the actual surface. This must be from an uneven >sharpening at some point which made one side smooth and left the other >side somehow marked or tarnished (not likely) or old ink or something. >It >definitely had me fooled and will require a skilled hand to sharpen >correctly. > >The steel of engraving tools is very hard, more than a burr you will >get a >"fuzz" on the edge, easily removed on the edge of a block. If the fuzz >resists, use a gentle stroke on a polishing stone but careful with >reshaping >that belly! It is the sharp edge created between the face and the >belly that >produces the cutting edge on these tools. > >In sewing I use the edge of a pin (the bit between the head and the >shaft) >to remove the burr from scissors. It only takes a stroke or two, I >would >assume the same amount of effort (i.e. virtually none) would be needed >with these tools. > >Thank you for your patience with my questions. My tools and I >appreciate >your help. :) > >emma > >-- >Emma Jane Hogbin [[ 416 417 2868 ][ www.xtrinsic.com ]] ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V24 #2377 *****************************