From: Clay (wcharmon@wt.net)
Date: 12/31/02-09:37:55 AM Z
I'm pretty sure Stuart was the provenance for this little trick. The
clerks in the liquor store look at you strangely when you come in and
just purchase 500ml of Everclear. You can just see them thinking "He
doesn't look like a basket case, but I guess you can never tell."
Clay
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 09:25 AM, Jeff Buck wrote:
> Carl & Clay: The first I can recall anybody mentioning the use of
> grain alcohol (Everclear), in alt printing anyhow, was Stuart Melvin.
> I think Stuart told me he'd seen a reference to the use of same in
> somebody's like turn-of-the-century account of a process.... I guess
> I use a drop of 50% grain alcohol in every pt/pd coating these days.
> -jb
>
> At 10:17 AM 12/31/2002 -0500, Carl Weese wrote:
>> Oh, *that* stuff!
>>
>> Great excuse.
>>
>> ---Carl
>> --
>> web site with picture galleries
>> and workshop information at:
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~cweese/
>>
>> ----------
>> >From: Clay <wcharmon@wt.net>
>> >To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>> >Subject: Re: Papers for Platinum Printing
>> >Date: Tue, Dec 31, 2002, 9:48 AM
>> >
>>
>> > Yep. Seems to make the coating go on more smoothly, and it
>> disperses it
>> > evenly on the paper. Plus if things go badly, you can always take a
>> > nip, and things don't seem so bad after all...
>> >
>> > Clay
>> > On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 08:46 AM, Carl Weese wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> about about 4 drops of distilled water per 2ml
>> >>> of sensitizer/metal, plus a drop or two of everclear.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Everclear"??
>> >>
>> >> ---Carl
>> >>
>> >
>
>
>
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