From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 01/30/02-06:26:25 PM Z
Jeff,
My "magic brush" is the Richeson *artificial bristle* brush sold by Daniel
Smith as the "Stephen Quillar signature series". It works beautifully and
sheds just about all of the expensive sensitizer, while the natural sable
brush eats up at least 1/3 of the coating material. Not cheap, though less
than natural critter fur, but the real saving is that it coats with the same
drop counts as a glass tube.---Carl
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>From: jeffbuck@swcp.com
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: WHICH LENNOX?
>Date: Wed, Jan 30, 2002, 5:52 PM
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> Clay, Carl and All: (1) I use Kerik's and Stewart's magic brush. Love it.
> This for those listening is the Richeson 9500 (I think the number is) brush,
> which costs like $80-$90 (gasp). (2) Picking up on the sub-thread re:
> fragility of Platine and drying method. As a general rule, I've been drying
> like so: Out of the final wash and onto a clothes-pin-on-a-wire for a minute
> or two, turn 90 degrees for another minute or two. On to the ambient-air-only
> drying screen. The ambient humidity varies by season and weather, of course,
> but around 30-40 this time of year. I really don't know how fast the prints
> dry at this rate, because I go out of my way to leave them be (I think
> there's a superstitious impulse at work there), but I'm thinking pretty dang
> dry in an hour or so but not really really dry for a couple more (?). I guess
> I've thought of this as a very careful/robust drying technique, as opposed to
> forced air of any kind (I will do that w/ testers and other rough drafts)....
> -JB
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> clay <wcharmon@wt.net> said:
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>> Carl wrote:
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>> I've had a problem with
>> >Platine ending up with a fragile finished print surface that nearly needs
> to
>> >be handled like a charcoal or pastel drawing. The Lenox seems quite immune
>> >to scuffing or abrasion.
>>
>> Carl:
>>
>> I haven't really noticed this. How are you drying it after coating? With
>> heat and forced air, moving ambient air, what? Just wondering if the time it
>> takes the sensitizer to soak in may be a factor in fragility with Platine.
>>
>> Clay
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