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Message 1
From: "Richard Farrel"
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 07:38:20 -0700 (Pacific Standard Time)
Subject: [Baren 27684] Re: Electric carvers
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Electric carvers ? While this is not electric instead pneumatic (air) a
company called GRS produces tools that is designed for engraving metal and
carving wood using chisels the same as one would by hand. Here is their
web site http://www.grstools.com/gravers.html wood . Richard

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Message 2
From: "DePry Clan"
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 12:19:59 -0700
Subject: [Baren 27685] Re: New Baren Digest (Text) V31 #3020 (Apr 1
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The plywood you purchased has inferior plys under the veneer. Most of the under plys are gapped with blown-out knot holes that create disasters on the top; cave ins. You need to do some asking around looking for cabinaet grade plywood that should boast superior under plys.
Double D

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Message 3
From: Wanda Robertson
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 12:23:28 -0700
Subject: [Baren 27686] Re: New Baren Digest (Text) V31 #3020 (Apr 1
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Hi Dale,

I also use birch ply - but I get the stuff they call 'apple core' at my
local lumber yard (& I've found some at Home Depot at a much lower
price!) It is also called 'all birch' plywood - which just means that
the whole thing is birch - no mahogany or whatever thrown into the
middle layers. It is made to build kitchen cupboards & furniture, so
it is pretty gap-free. I have found the glue to not be so hard &
brittle as the cheaper birch ply too -- so it's not as hard on your
carving tools.

Also, get acquainted with some cabinet makers - my sister started
working for a local place & she got pieces of that siren-song
ccchhhheeeerrrryyy wood for me! :-) So my #24 is going to be done with
cherry blocks. Oh gee here I go down the slippery slopes of expensive
taste. Thanks Maria!

Just my .02 worth for today
Wanda

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Message 4
From: "DePry Clan"
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 12:25:20 -0700
Subject: [Baren 27687] Re: Electric carvers
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I think the electric chisel is a grand idea and dont think any less of you.
Personally I use the dremel tool a lot and a drill with a wire wheel and the
Roto zip tool. I believe it broadens your range of mark making and creates a
time saver when large areas of waste need removing. Since you assert that
carpal tunnel is reaking havoc it only makes sense to use that tool. Bottom
line is , whatever keeps you making art, do it.
Double D

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Message 5
From: Wanda Robertson
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 12:38:29 -0700
Subject: [Baren 27688] Re: Electric carvers
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They have those John - they are called 'vacuum cleaners'

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Message 6
From: "claudia g coonen"
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 10:23:41 -1000
Subject: [Baren 27689] scroll mounting class
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aloha,
I have such limited computer skills... and I have yet to post a photo....
I've wanted to share the scroll class photos I took last summer.
Unfortunately they were on the same card as the kid's book class I taught,
bear with me there's only about 6 photos of that. The Yoshimura-san class
is just my documentation of all of it.

Hope it works!!(fingers crossed)

C:\Documents and Settings\claudia coonen\My Documents\My Pictures\kid's
bookmaking class yoshimura's class

claudia on maui

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Message 7
From: "marilynn smih"
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 15:25:11 -0700
Subject: [Baren 27690] RE: Baren Digest (old) V31 #3023
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>After burning up a dozen or more dremel tools over the years I invested in a Fordam.
>This is great, but the really terrific part is then I learned from Maria that they
>have an attachment which acts more or less like a pneumatic chisel; it only goes back
>and forth when you exert pressure on the cutting edge. Now THAT little angel is worth its weight in plutonium.

I for one am not getting any younger. Could you folks planning the 2006 summit think on having something
like this available for demo and a look see?
Marilynn

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Message 8
From: "Paul Mullowney"
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:22:03 -1000
Subject: [Baren 27691] Ukiyo-e exhibition, conference, and workshops on Maui
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Dear Baren members:

I am writing to let everybody know about a very exciting exhibition in Maui, opening July 29th, and running until September 25th, 2005.

Wood Skin Ink: The Japanese Aesthetic in Modern Tattooing explores the link between Edo period Ukiyo-e prints and the tattoo world of the same period--a tradition which is still strong today.

There will be works on paper by five leading Tattoo Masters:
Don Ed Hardy, Honolulu, HI
Takahiro Kitamura, San Jose, CA
Chris Trevino, Austin, TX
Horiyoshi III, Yokohama, Japan
Horitomo, Deshi of Horiyoshi III

There will be historical works by Yoshitoshi, Kunisada, Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, Kunichika and many more.

There will be an exciting three-day opening conference--July 29th, 30th, 31st-- featuring talks, symposia and demonstrations by the visiting artists, as well as:

Roger Keyes, Professor at Brown University, and Harvard University, authority on Ukiyo-e prints.
Yasu Shibata, Master Printer for Pace Editions, New York, where he has printed stunning work of Chuck Close and Helen Frankenthaler.
Rebecca Salter, Professor, Camberwell College of Art, London, author of 'Japanese Woodblock Printing,' University of Hawaii Press.

Ms. Salter will also conduct a six-day intensive workshop in multi block printing which leads up to the conference.

For more info, please see the link at:

http://www.huinoeau.com/wood_skin_ink/index.html


Warm regards and Aloha,


Paul Mullowney
Core Faculty, Printmaking
Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center
2841 Baldwin Avenue
Makawao, Maui, Hawaii 96768
tel 808 572 6560 ext 31

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