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Easy? I gave up trying to shop at Macys after getting shown out of a dozen YMCAs...

You got a great sense of humour, Wullie.

BTW I love Taxes...

I have tried it already! I used to subscibe to Judy Siegal's World Journal of Post Factory Photography around 1998 - she was one feisty lady!

I have a particularly attractive gum bichromate pic...

That's how I heard it Jimmy. Sometimes the order of agents in the mix made or broke the process - bit like making a roux, I suppose, and putting the flour in the pot before melting the butter in it...

Ah, I was a collodion wetplate photographer, also dabbled in ambrotypes (same process) silver gelatin, cyanotype and van dyke amongst others. Silver gelatin looks like it has the process, but the...

There have been various threads, on this site and on others, with regards to making hones. One of the most promising - and long-lived threads was on another forum. The main stumbling block was...

Like JimmyHAD, I was wrong once before - now its twice - grrrr.

Regards,
Neil

Dog hearing, lol!

Don't tell me - you used to be a werewolf but you're alright no-ooo-oooooo-oooooow!

I think Randy thinks that he is too busy for the forseeable future to answer emails as Geezer has already posted:



Regards,
Neil

A small update on the American Hone Company and Barber Hones

Merle Johnson, who bought the American Hone Co. already had a business or two - Perfecto Products / Success Barber Supply Company. The...

We knew that... :)

Hirlau, Tom told me that your IQ is so low that you found it while digging a hole. At least I think he was talking about your IQ...

I looked up one of my old posts and found that a guy called Merle Johnson bought the American Hone Co c1900 and brought employee Louise Hiatt with him from another of his companies to oversee the...

I spek da eglisch purty dam fine even if ah does say so mysel...

I dasn't have no time for dis Razor felt humerous neither, a decent radius and ulna is plenty good enuff for us god-fearing folks. ...

As far as I know, the cold ones were made with some kind of resin binder. Often, this was used to make double sided hones, fine and coarse sided. One layer was poured, allowed to set enough so it...

Pixel, didn't you say your ma-in-law was clever too? That was long ago though, pre-menstrual society!

Ta-ding!

Don't forget, you saw Pixel & Miller here first, folks and we are head-lining all...

Most of the Oleans barber hones (made for a bewildering number of companies bu a few companies in Oleans) were either 'cold' or 'hot' - the cold were liquid left to set up and the hot ones were...