[alt-photo] Re: paper

[Clay Harmon Website]

No kidding. At least that was true a few years  ago. I tried some, and if memory serves it was a 600gsm paper. Almost cardboard. 

I am not sure if they still make it.

 Nutty how confusing it can all get. 

 Sort of like George Foreman (the retired heavyweight boxer and grill maven) naming five of his sons "George Edward Foreman": there is Jr, III, IV, V and VI.  No joke.


On Mar 6, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Diana Bloomfield wrote:

> I didn't even know Rives had a "super-heavy version" - or were you just kidding?  I can never tell.
> 
> I go to our local Jerry's here, and I typically buy the "Rives heavyweight BFK", at 280 gsm, which I really love.   I've been buying various papers there forever, but only just discovered that if you buy 20 of any one thing (anything in the store)-- if it's at least 20 of the exact same thing of whatever it is you're buying (like 20 bottles of Gamblin PVA for instance)-- you get a 20% discount.  I was stunned.   I guess I've always bought less paper than that at any one time, but recently, I bought 20 at one shot-- so I found out about this discount.  They said they'd always offered that (only in the store, I gather, not online)-- a well-kept secret.  But that extra discount on already discounted paper there sure seems like a real bargain to me.   And I really like working with it-- seems to work really well for gum-printing.
> 
> Diana
> On Mar 6, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Paul Viapiano wrote:
> 
>> Clay...
>> 
>> Exactly what I meant...makes your eyes glaze over!
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clay Harmon Website" <clayh at clayharmon.com>
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>> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 8:33 AM
>> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: dichromate stain
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>> 
>>> There are still quite a few versions of BFK available. In fact, there is a confusing array weights and variants. For instance, Daniel Smith carries a 250gsm Rives White, and a 270gsm White, not to be confused with the  280 gsm BFK heavyweight. There is also a 175 gsm Rives Heavyweight BFK,  not to be confused with the 115gsm Rives BFK lightweight, or the 180 gsm Velin Cuve Rives BFK.  It is crazy-making to be sure. I like the strangely named 175gsm Rives BFK  Heavyweight for pt and gum. Good wet strength and a nice strong pt print when it is acidified.
>>> 
>>> Just saying Rives BFK is not terribly specific when you start digging into all the options available. And I did not even get into the super heavy versions that weigh in at 300+ gsm.....
>>> 
>>> Clay
>>> 
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