Baren Digest Thursday, 5 July 2001 Volume 16 : Number 1479 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Gillyin Gatto" Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 11:07:22 -0700 Subject: [Baren 15049] alder wood hello to all i'm curious about the alder ,Dan Dew, as to how big was the block you carved? we have lots of alde r trees in Maine - -colloquially called "alter" (" -go getcha some alter sticks, and go tippin") but it is never very large -being a shrubby tree of low wetlands - we have Speckled Alder and some mountain alder yours could be european Black Alder the only alder besides Seaside which grows to big tree size 20-50' high and 1-2' diameters my alders are only 1-2" tho its is a pretty wood has anyone ever tried wild cherry wood- like CHOKECHERRY ? i have lots of it that is reaching maturity -another shrubby tree tho it gets much bigger than alder one could get alot of 4-6" blocks out of it is it worth sawing out some planks?? gillyin machias maine usa ------------------------------ From: GWohlken Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 12:51:25 -0400 Subject: [Baren 15050] Re: Baren Digest V16 #1478 Josephine, your floral idea is wonderfully alive with variety and excitement. I wish I could be in this exchange, but other commitments won't let me this time around. John, you mentioned Resingrave as not being right for you. To quote you: "... it gives me the willies". Could you explain in detail (not about the willies themselves, but the reason for the willies). I have tried Resingrave but have not tried boxwood, so don't know the difference. I have a tiny block of boxwood that I want to try some engraving on and was wondering if I fall in love with this stuff, will I find myself miserable because I probably can't afford to use anything but the tiniest blocks of it. Congratulations to April and Wanda and her daughter on their successful shows. Gayle Ohio, USA ------------------------------ From: Wanda Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 10:15:34 -0700 Subject: [Baren 15051] Re: alder wood Gillyin wrote: > was the block you carved? we have lots of alde r trees in Maine > -colloquially called "alter" (" -go getcha some alter sticks, and go > tippin") Ummm....we need a translation of that, Gillyin. On the question of sawing & making your own blocks - most of the advice I have gotten (referring to a 10" -12" seedling cherry tree that fell over) was that it was way too much work to dry, saw, plane & otherwise try to make blocks out of it. Of course, if one had the proper equipment: portable sawmill, planer, etc. - why not? I know a couple of people with cherry wood stowed under their deck or even on their balcony. :-) We have lots & lots of Alder in the Northwest too. Red Alder grows profusely on the slopes of Mt. Hood. Beautiful in the winter when it really looks red up against the miles & miles of dark green fir trees that it likes to keep company with. Wanda ------------------------------ From: slinder@mediaone.net Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 15:15:55 -0500 Subject: [Baren 15052] Re: Flora Exchange Now that the regular Exchange #11 is filled, is there any interest in signing up for a mini-exchange? "Salon de Refuse"-Flora? -using the same rules, same size, same dates as the regular Exchange 11. I'll volunteer to coordinate. Sharen Printmaker wrote: > > Hi All > > I checked the sign on page of the #11 exchange this morning > and notice that its already full! > I also had a little chuckle to myself as I remembered that > the sign up was 1st July.. > Josephine ------------------------------ From: FurryPressII@aol.com Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 22:16:43 EDT Subject: [Baren 15053] Re: Baren Digest V16 #1478 boxwood cuts like a dream. It has the perfect texture for higly detailed wood engraving blocks. Its draw back is that it is so d.... expensive a 4 by 5 inch woodengraving block cost 50 dollars gennerally for most art woodengravers the maple endgrain blocks work well enough but the difference between maple and box is quite noticable. I don't like the feel and cutting of resingraave compared to even maple which is easy to get and not so expansive a 10 by 12; block of endgrain maple costs about 40 dollars. My problem with resingrave is that it does not cut as well as maple and some of the tools i use in my engravings esp the non-traditional ones such as rolutting tools and stipling tools don't work in the resingrave at all and the price for resingrave and maple are about the same so i don't use it. larger than 10 by 12 i use plank grain maple and a very fine v gouge . my style of cutting is very similiar in wood cuts as wood engraving esp on the larger size prints as the print gets larger the dianamic seems to change. The funny thing they make a product for intaligo printing that i do like but that is another story. John of the furry press ps glad i can get my plank grain wood directly from a lumber yard instead of an art or printing supply house. The end grain wood is a different thing altogether. It appears the company that makes it mainly makes it for wood type which is used to make liscence plates so they don't sand it as well as a printer might want esp if you want large black areas if you work over the whole block with details (like a\Albrect Durers wood cuts) this does not seem to matter as much. might be one of the reason they cut them that way. ------------------------------ From: "Ittai Altshuler" Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 09:03:52 +0200 Subject: [Baren 15054] Thank you all for our good time together Dear Baren Members I thank you all letting me share a great forum. I don't have enough time to continue right now. Please Dave drop me off the list. thank you again. Ittai Altshuler ittai@vitality.co.il www.vitality.co.il ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V16 #1479 *****************************