Re: Gambi Trainwreck II

[William Marsh <redcloud54@earthlink.net>]

Dick Arentz book has a lot to say about Gampi.  Might help to read up
before your next try.

Bill

Jeff Buckels wrote:
> 
> Well, the interest in this is plainly limited but I gotta make an addendum
> for the sake of accuracy:  So, this Gampi image looked awful on the drying
> rack, what w/ all the splotching I wrote about.  Well, that stuff, I dunno,
> just dried away.  Issues remain, but not that one....  This Gampi is very
> delicate indeed when wet.  Really easy to create creases.  On the dry print,
> these creases are arguably cool-looking, but will try double hard to avert
> same next session.  -jb
> 
> Jeff Buckels wrote:
> 
> > Hi List:  Anybody use Gambi paper much?  Just got a few sheets each of
> > white and natural.  Pulled out a negative tried and tested pr,eviously on
> > Platine and Lenox.  A 5x7.  Applied 8 drops straight ferric ox, 4 @ of
> > pt and pd, .5 drop of Tween 20.  Coating w/ Magic Brush seemed
> > uneventful.  Developed out in potassium ox w/ #2 grade of 50% sod.
> > dichromate.  No light to talk about for first minute of development.
> > Shortly after I turned the light on, small dark spots came up pretty
> > quickly and pretty uniformly over entire surface of the print.  These
> > "smoothed out" in the course of wet processing into fainter, all-over
> > splotchiness.  What the ... ?  -jeff buckels