As I understand, bone and ivory 'move' with changes in humidity and temperature.
With that in mind, sealing one side with CA or the like may not be the best thing?
I suppose if one was to do it, sealing the whole things may be best?
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As I understand, bone and ivory 'move' with changes in humidity and temperature.
With that in mind, sealing one side with CA or the like may not be the best thing?
I suppose if one was to do it, sealing the whole things may be best?
Always seal both sides, or it will cup on you.
@Outback I ordered the Howards restore a shine to add to my collection of stuff. I'll give it a go on the scales when it gets here. Hoping to bring up the polish/shine on these last scales I made.
Lots of nice work going on here guys. Fine work and great jobs as always.
When I used the ca I did both sides to avoid that happening. It did make for a nicer finish and I broke the scales pinning them so I have no idea about the long term.
Working on the font for the Otto etch and I tell ya men, block script that's worn or deformed is impossible to clean up in paint programs no matter the zoom level you work at.
Case in point;
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The three upper sets are actual new typed characters in a variety of TTF's, and the white on black is the original image off the actual scales, cleaned up as best I could.
Realizing the total image on the scale will be quite small maybe the sins in the original will not look as bad as I fear, and I am going to run all of them onto actual stock and then let the project manager decide, ;)
They used unique spacing on the rows in the original that also were not easy to match up. For example, the upper row @ a font size of 16- normal character spacing and a lower row of say font size 6 would have the lower row too close to each other compared to the upper so I had to finesse row height as well as character spacing to get them as close as I have.
Anyway, that's what's goin on up here tonight.
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Same here Tom, tone down from 16 k shapton to natural usually gain smoothness.
I think it looks awesome, Mike!
Let's keep in mind that the originals were hot-stamped!
Mostly less than perfect.
Less than perfect is authentic!
So hurry-up and do those so I can persuade Tuzi to make me a set of green ones for my Green Lizard so I can send it to you so you can do the lizard thing on them!
That! :roflmao
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