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Message 1
From: "HARRY FRENCH"
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:04:24 -0000
Subject: [Baren 24470] New member : Reply
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Greetings from England

I promised myself that I would not contribute to the Baren forum for at least a fortnight. However, before I go on my short holiday to Cornwall I would like to thank you all for such a great welcome, positive advice and the complimentary comments about work on my website. The times that I thought of abandoning the web project over the past year was daily, because I'm a platen wood crusher at heart not a web nerd!.

However, I now think it has all been worth it.

Kind regards and every success at your exhibitions and exchanges,

Harry

Lincoln(UK)



http://homepage.ntlworld.com/h.french1/GALLERIES.htm



h.french1@ntlworld.com

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Message 2
From: "Maurice Fykes"
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 07:01:37 -0800
Subject: [Baren 24471] Re:Removing sticky tabs from your paper
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Hello Barners,
long time lurker here. I have a question, Does anyone have a better way to
remove the sticky tabs from your print paper other than using acidtone? I am
starting to have flash backs of the 60's again.
Also, Thanks for the congratulations on my Koi prints.
Maurice Fykes III

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Message 3
From: "Joseph Sheridan"
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:15:57 -0500
Subject: [Baren 24472] Re: Wide Cherry Board
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Kent.
Sounds like you do have a treasure there, that 14" wide cherry.
I work using some traditional Japanese methods and have worked on cherry. Can I make a suggestion for your wood preparation? Working on the smoothest surface possible will make a difference in the final product so I took my cherry to a carpenter shop and had him run the plank through this bench plane. This gave me an excellent surface to start the final block preparation. I read in the Hiroshi Yoshida woodblock book that:"... when two planed surfaces are put together, it would be difficult to separate them without slipping them along."
Good Luck ~ Be inspired !
Joe Sheridan

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Message 4
From: Sharri LaPierre
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:40:37 -0800
Subject: [Baren 24473] Re: Missing in action: Inomachi Paper
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Brian,

Have you tried Aiko's in Chicago, Hiromi in Santa Monica, and Takach in
New Mexico? The first two are most likely to have it.

Sharri

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Message 5
From: Shireen Holman
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 12:44:38 -0500
Subject: [Baren 24474] Re: New member : Introduction
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I just looked at Harry French's website - very nice work! Welcome Harry.
Shireen


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Shireen Holman, Printmaker and Book Artist
email: shireen@shireenholman.com
http://www.shireenholman.com
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Message 6
From: JEANNE CHASE
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:04:18 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Baren 24475] Re: New member : Reply
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Very nice work, Harry
Welcome to the Baren!!!

Jeanne N.

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Message 7
From: eli griggs
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:11:43 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Baren 24476] The Baren Co-op
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Hi there:

I don't really know about such things but...

with so many artist/printmakers using so many
different papers, could we not arrange to buy our more
commonly used papers (Arches, Lana, Kitakata, Masa,
ect.) directly from a wholesaler, two-three times a
year?

If each artist wanting paper ordered a 100$ minimum
plus shipping & handling charges I think we could put
together a couple of orders each year and get a much
better value for our dollars.

Perhaps we might even persuade the seller to allow
small minimums of the more expensive/rare papers to
receive favored discounts?

We could also look for a wholesaler would ship
directly to the buying artist directly, so as to not
to overload the 'Mall Staff,' although the group order
would, of course, have to go thru the Mall.

I know such a set-up would for sure help me. I tend
to order once a year and when I run short, buy from
local art centers at really high mark ups. A purchase
of some Mase recently came with the wholesalers price
still attached and showed me I paid almost a four (4)
fold increase. This was at the lower priced of the
local shops.

I'd much rather buy four time the paper for the dollar
and sit on the excess than see those dollars go for
Store X's operating cost and profit.

Who know, maybe I'd print four times as often with so
much paper to work with.

So what about it, does anyone else feel the same? Can
we get up enough genuine interest to do this?

Cheers,
Eli





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Message 8
From: ArtfulCarol # aol.com
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:08:45 EST
Subject: [Baren 24477] Re: New member Harry
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I am happy to welcome new member Harry French and not only that but he is
joining the Lefties Can Carve
group.

We are 11, and international, including a printer from Japan, Mexico,China,
and now England.

If you are on the list and cannot be part of Lefties, please let me know
off-line as soon as possible.

Carol Lyons

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Message 9
From: "baschwar"
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 15:17:14 -0800
Subject: [Baren 24478] The Baren Co-op
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These people would be a good place to look for paper... they offer multi sheet mix and match discounts. So, if you order a total of 500 sheets of any combination of paper you get the 500 sheet price for each type of paper you order... definitely a great savings...

Dolphin Papers
1043 Virginia Ave
Indianapolis, IN 46203
1.800.346.2770

They do have a website, but I'm not able to put a finger on it right now.

Brad

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Message 10
From: "baschwar"
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 15:17:14 -0800
Subject: [Baren 24479] The Baren Co-op
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